Labor, employment, and social policies in the EU enlargement process : changing perspectives and policy options / [edited by] Bernard Funck, and Lodovico Pizzati
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, c2002
Descript
xx, 406 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Labor market trends in Central and Eastern European Countries -- Role of social policies and the EU in labor reallocation in transition economies -- Labor market in Poland: Current trends and challenges -- Labor market trends and issues in Lithuania -- Developments and current labor market issues in Romania -- Main challenges of the Slovenian labor market -- Employment policies in Spain (1975-2000): Lessons for Central European Countries acceding to the European Union -- How is Germany's labor market coping with unification? -- Poland: Regional dimensions of unemployment -- Regional disparities in unemployment in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of Hungary -- Lessons from East Germany on labor mobility -- Departure from the periphery: Reflections on regional labor markets without borders in Austria -- European integration: A policy toward stability, growth, and employment -- Immigration aspects of European enlargement -- Discussant notes -- Does Eurosclerosis matter? Institutional reform and labor market performance in Central and Eastern European Countries -- Comparative experience with labor market reform -- Unemployment, poverty and social exclusion in Central and Eastern Europe -- Searching for solutions to reduce social exclusion in Latvia -- Social exclusion and double marginalization of the Roma in the Slovak Republic after 1989