Social Union, Convergence and Migration

By H. Sinn, W. Ochel. Social Science Research Network, 2003

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The forces of the market and systems competition bring about economic and social convergence in Europe, and there is no need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonization would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of economic convergence. National welfare states will be threatened by the free migration of people in Europe. The race to the bottom is a serious risk. However, to contain this risk, neither harmonization of welfare payments nor constraints on migration are needed. The adoption of the principle of selectively delayed integration is a better alternative.

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The Pathological Export Boom and the Bazaar Effect - How to Solve the German Puzzle (2006, background): “If previous convergence experience in Western Europe, which suggests a convergence rate of about one per cent is used for the forecast, 50 per cent of west German wages will be reached only by about 2060 ( Sinn and Ochel, 2003, p. 871; and Egger and Pfaffermayr, 2006).”
The Global Diffusion of Public Policies: Social Construction, Coercion, Competition or Learning? (2007, background): “Developed countries are thought to compete by adopting policies that facilitate market harmonization and market-conforming policies (Sinn & Ochel 2003).”
Mobile central eastern Europeans in Britain: successful European Union citizens and disadvantaged labour migrants? (2011, background): “However, such a move could be, as some economists have argued, suicidal to the existing welfare state (Sinn and Ochel, 2003).”