Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31957 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Ezoneplus Working Paper No. 13B
Publisher: 
Free University Berlin, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Berlin
Abstract: 
This report explores some features of the social dimension of enlargement regarding the Southern EU-Member countries, namely Portugal, Spain and Italy. Economic theory suggests that integration may affect wages, employment and income distribution through changes on trade, FDI and migration flows. By removing all barriers to the free movement of goods and services, capital and labour, Eastward Enlargement will affect the location of economic activities, innovation, and technology. Subsequently, the need for economic readjustments will impose extra difficulties at national, regional and sector levels. These aspects have been analysed in several studies, stressing that the regional and social dimension of enlargement as well as the effects on cohesion, have to be taken into account when conceiving EU policies.
Subjects: 
enlargement
labour markets
southern EU-members
EMU
JEL: 
G1
E2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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