The process of European Union enlargement brings both economic benefits and costs to Eastern European candidate countries. While the latter are in general more visible directly and frequently occur in the short run, the former are more difficult to quantify and not that obvious for the taxpayer...

With the collapse of the socialist system in Eastern Europe and the advancement of the European Union integration process of the formerly communist countries, many of which are increasingly likely to join the single European market in the foreseeable future, the informal sector in transitional...