"This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have been evolving across Central and Eastern Europe. Beyond existing path dependency and neo-institutionalist explanations, it highlights the role of explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms,...

1989/90 ging von den Gesellschaften östlich des Eisernen Vorhangs ein großer Freiheitsimpuls aus. Doch der brachte dort den Verlust von Arbeitsplätzen, sozialer Sicherheit und politischen Gewissheiten. Die jüngste Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas ist voller Brüche, Neuanfänge und Umwälzungen....

A comprehensive introduction to the nations of Central and Eastern Europe over a half century of turbulent change - from post war subjugation by the Soviet Union to both shared and divergent experiences of post-Communist transition to free-market democracies.

This paper analyses real income convergence in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) to the most advanced EU economies between 2000 and 2016. The relevance of this topic stems both from the far-reaching implications of real income convergence for economic welfare and the importance...