The Impact of Poland’s EU Accession on GDP Growth Rate: Analysis of Three Years (2004-2006)
The process of Poland’s EU accession that started in 1986 with the Polish government expressing its intention to cooperate with the EU (called the EEC at the time), eventually completed on 13th of December 2002, during the summit meeting in Copenhagen. Poland-EU cooperation moved to its ultimate stage: it was agreed that May the 1st 2004 would be the date of Poland’s joining to the EU.
The process of EU economic integration constitutes to a big challenge for accessing countries and their environments. There are many consequences of this process, some of these that Skawiñska & Zalewski (2003) identify are faster economic growth, better asset utilization, increased competitive power of enterprises and improved quality of life for society via more effectively addressing society’s needs. Read more
Job Reallocation in Georgia (2000-2004)
Large number of papers in Labor Economics focus of worker flows and job flows. Worker flows are closely associated with search and matching concepts, while job flows focus on job creation and job destruction. Analyzing these flows gives opportunity to understand labor market dynamics and the reallocation of labor. Job flows are especially important for understanding unemployment in general and frictional unemployment in particular.
Our focus in this paper is job destruction and job creation rates in Georgia for the period 2000-04. Overall business environment during period 2000-04 was highly unfavorable. It was characterized by inefficient entrepreneurial legislation framework represented by time consuming start up/liquidation and merger measures, extremely ineffective tax administration and excessively high tax rates that hampered the economy. These factors in general are highly correlated with new firm appearance rates that in turn affects the overall unemployment rate in the country. Read more
