CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Altorjai, Szilvia |
|---|---|
| Title | Policy convergence or divergence? European Employment Strategy and labor market policy change in three member states: Hungary, Slovenia and Estonia |
| Summary | The paper examines the EU driven labour market policy change in three Central and Eastern European EU member states, Slovenia, Estonia and Hungary. The research assesses to what extent these developments have constituted convergence towards the European Employment Strategy (EES), and whether the degree of convergence depends on the path dependence of the previous policy practice of new member states. The paper is set against the background of the growing literature of Europeanization. The paper uses evaluation reports from the EU Commission and EU member states and other working papers. Based on these documents an evaluation scoring system was developed which provides evidence for the conditional convergence towards the EES depending on the embeddeness of previous policy path. Hence, the countries’ performance highly depends on two factors. The first one is the incentives structure used by the EU forcing domestic policy makers to comply with the EU requirements. The second is the hindering factors of those previous policy practices which are not in line with the EES requirements. These two factors together determine the likelihood of policy convergence and identify the direction of policy change. |
| Supervisor | Alex Fisher |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/altorjai_szilvia.pdf |
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