This paper analyses employment effects of the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) in German firms. The … literature has so far identified such effects using difference-in-differences estimators treating the EU Eastern Enlargement as a … more recent and detailed data on actual tariff reductions. We recall that the EU Eastern Enlargement is a process of …

issues such as EU Eastern Enlargement from today's perspectives, trying to explain why it is difficult to talk about … enlargement in a fragmented European Union. How will the European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations evolve in the … the European leaders' discourse on a possible enlargement of the European Union has evolved. …

the EU enlargement law is concerned, the present practice of virtually ignoring gay rights is unsustainable … Copenhagen-related legal instruments, coupled with the pre-accession principle of conditionality that offered the EU a virtual … that the EU would advance gay rights protection in the candidate countries during the pre-accession exercise. This has not …

The paper analyses the economic implications of the accession of New Member States (NMS) to the European Union (EU) in … 2004 and 2007. The estimation effects of integration with the EU were carried out as a comparative case study using the … accession to the EU (Campos, Coricelli and Moretti), we check for the importance of the quality of economic institutions for the …

This paper summarizes the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU … associated with Eastern enlargement drawing on a time series model of immigration to Germany, which allows to estimate the long …) on labor markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may …

In this paper, we study the growth effects of the 2004 Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) using the … synthetic control method. We estimate that this EU enlargement had an immediate but modest positive impact on the economic … growth of the EU-8 countries in the first few years following their EU accession. The positive impact of the EU enlargement …