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Eastern Enlargement (eastern + enlargement)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Business, Economics, Finance and Accounting	50%

Selected Abstracts

The Economics of Eastern Enlargement of the EU

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 5 2001
Robert Read
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New Parliament, New Cleavages after the Eastern Enlargement?

JCMS: JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, Issue 5 2010
The Conflict over the Services Directive as an Opposition between the Liberals, the Regulators
This article analyses the parliamentary debates and decision-making related to the highly contentious EU directive on services. It is intended as a contribution to the academic debate on political conflict lines in the European Parliament. Our argument is that neither the left,right cleavage nor a territorial one (old versus new Member States) can fully explain conflict at stake on socio-economic issues. Rather, what we can observe is cross-cutting opposition between ,regulators' and ,liberals'. [source]

Sectoral Transformation, Turbulence and Labor Market Dynamics in Germany

GERMAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 1 2010
Ronald Bachmann
Gross worker flows; sectoral and occupational mobility; turbulence Abstract. This paper analyzes the interaction between structural change and labor market dynamics in West Germany, during a period when industrial employment declined by more than 30% and service sector employment more than doubled. Using transition data on individual workers, we document a marked increase in structural change and turbulence, in particular since 1990. Net employment changes resulted partly from an increase in gross flows, but also from an increase in the net transition ,yield' at any given gross worker turnover. In growing sectors, net structural change was driven by accessions from non-participation rather than unemployment; contracting sectors reduced their net employment primarily via lower accessions from non-participation. German reunification and Eastern enlargement appear to have contributed significantly to this accelerated pace of structural change. [source]

Do Enlargements Make the European Union Less Cohesive?

JCMS: JOURNAL OF COMMON MARKET STUDIES, Issue 2 2007
An Analysis of Trust between EU Nationalities
This article analyses the impact enlargements have had on the social cohesion of the European Union (EU), measured as generalized interpersonal trust between EU nationalities. Based on a quantitative-dyadic approach, Eurobarometer surveys from 1976 to 1997 are utilized. The key result is that enlargements do not necessarily weaken cohesion, but southern enlargement and the recent eastern enlargement did. The integrative effect of enlargement depends on the extent to which acceding nations differ from existing club members in three main dimensions: the level of modernization (mechanisms: prestige), cultural characteristics (mechanisms: similarity) and their power in the international system (mechanisms: perceived threat). [source]