The Enlargement of European Union and Labor Market: Trends and Challenges (original) (raw)
2005, http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/intlvf/8
The main topic of this paper is the inter-relations between the European labor markets and the Eastern Enlargement. Several issues will be examined throughout the paper, namely the current challenges and problems of the EU labor markets, their impacts on the overall competitiveness of the European economy, and the possible effects of the Eastern enlargement on both of these. The main question to be asked throughout paper is that if the eastern enlargement will be able to create a positive environment on solution of the problems of the European labor market and if it will help to increase the competitiveness of the European economy. The general idea of the writer on the topic is that the Eastward enlargement will be able to provide only a very little support to the solution of problems of the European labor markets. The possible negative effects of the widening of the EU borders on the EU labor markets in terms of unemployment and wage-cuts will be also considerably small. On the other hand, the labor markets of the new EU members will be able to benefit from continuing foreign investment and alignment of the national social policies to the EU ones. Regarding the competitiveness of the EU economy, the writer argues that impacts of the eastern enlargement on the competitiveness might be significant in the short term but taking into account the structural problems of the EU economy and the significance of the international challenges ahead they will be insufficient in the long run. Keywords: EU, Labor, Labor Market.
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