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EUROPEAN UNION: ECONOMIC CONVERGENCEVERSUS SOCIAL MOBILITY
Author(s) -
CHOI CHONG JU,
CHENG PHILIP,
HILTON BRIAN
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-9663
pISSN - 0040-747X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2004.00319.x
Subject(s) - european union , convergence (economics) , european monetary union , economic and monetary union , economics , single market , social mobility , focus (optics) , economic system , political science , economic geography , international economics , macroeconomics , monetary policy , physics , optics , law
The purpose of this paper is to analyse the economic convergence of the European Union in terms of the effects of European Monetary Union (EMU), which began in 1999 and possible conflict with, ‘social mobility’ in Europe. Our focus is on the low rate of mobility in the labour market. We assume that this is due to psychological and social aspects.