EU enlargement and labour markets in the CEECs

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

European Commission Directorate General for Agriculture Analysis of the Impact on Agricultural Markets and Incomes of EU Enlargement to the CEECs

FOREWORD This report has been prepared by the Directorate General for Agriculture of the European Commission in the framework of the analyses carried out in preparation for the approaching EU enlargement. It is aimed at providing a clear picture of the possible impact of different enlargement scenarios on agricultural markets and on farm incomes in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CE...

Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK

Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK The UK was one of only three countries to allow migrants from accession countries to enter their labour markets more or less without restriction following EU enlargement in May 2004. Therefore, it is important to establish the characteristics and labour market performance of migrants from these countries who have...

Varieties , Jobs and EU Enlargement

Two key factors that have so far allowed fast growing economies of central and eastern Europe to cope with their external constraint have been i) the presence of relatively low unit labour costs and ii) the initial undervaluation of the exchange rate. The accession to the EU will inevitably reduce both sources of competitiveness of eastern European exports: real wages are likely to catch-up wes...

Labour Markets in EU Border Regions: the case of Kent and Nord-Pas de Calais

Acknowledgements: Financial support from the European Regional Development Fund INTERREG II Community Initiative and the ESRC One Europe or Several Programme (Project No. L213252042) is gratefully acknowledged.