five Candidate Countries before their accession to the EU: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia and Slovenia …

The Slovak economy experienced a strong but short recession in 2009. The recovery afterwards was driven by exports and … are less positive. This development is compared with Estonia and Slovenia, two other small and very open economies …

use individual level Estonia Census data in order to investigate the ethnic dimensions of suburbanisation. The results …

The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered …

impact on Estonia’s trading partners. The majority of the studies surveyed here find that, overall, the trade-creation effect … will dominate following EU membership, although trade diversion will occur in sensitive sectors of the economy. However …

In this study, we analyse Estonia’s position in global value chains using World Input-Output Data and firm-level data …. We find that 69% of Estonia’s total exports are intermediate goods and services, exceeding the EU average (65%). Two …-thirds of Estonian imports are intermediates. Our findings suggest that Estonia is heavily involved in vertically and …

transition economy labor markets have typically relied upon. We analyze microdata on detailed labor force survey responses in … Russia, Romania, and Estonia to measure nonstandard, boundary forms and alternative definitions of labor force status. Our … much lower in Romania and slightly lower in Estonia, and alternative unemployment rates that are sharply higher in Romania …