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EU-Erweiterung war ein gutes Geschaft / EU enlargement was a good deal
21 August 2017
The fact that the EU's eastern enlargement to the EU in 2004 was a win-win for the "old" 15 Member States of the Union as well as for the newcomers in Central and Eastern Europe is clear in view of the overall positive economic figures. A four-member research team has now investigated the extent to which the prosperity gains for the citizens of the old and new Member States and for high and low-skilled workers were achieved. In a recently published study, Lorenzo Caliendo (Yale University), Luca David Opromolla (Banco de Portugal), Fernando Parro (Johns Hopkins University) and Alessandro Sforza (London School of Economics) concluded that the prosperity gains were unequally distributed.
Related publications
“Goods and Factor Market Integration: A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement”, Luca D. Opromolla, Fernando Parro, Alessandro Sforza. August 2017. http://faculty.som.yale.edu/lorenzocaliendo/COPS.pdf