Poltical Economy of European Integration M.A.
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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF WORK: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF POLITICAL APPROACHES IN FINLAND AND GERMANY
(2019)
Cyprus is a big east Mediterranean island with more than half a century long problem. Unfortunately, this problem was caused by conflicts between two neighbouring nations on the island and with Turkey’s illegal invention this problem became the problem for the century. In this thesis historical development of the problem takes an important place since conflict has very important historical roots. This thesis explains peace projects of the UN on the island and the last well-known peace project called Annan plan which was also supported by the EU. Lastly the EU enlarged the island without solving this historical problem. The EU often uses its strong conditionality power over candidates, yet the EU fails to conduct a peace on the island before it welcomes Cyprus to the Union. The main reason for this fast enlargement decision of the EU was Greece’s open policy for Cyprus. Since Eastern enlargement was important for the EU as a new market and an important security policy, the EU did not want to spend time on Cyprus because this would postpone the eastern enlargement. As a result, Republic of Cyprus became a member of the EU as a whole island, while the problem is still there.
This paper reviews the link between national labour market participation oriented policy changes and EU Country Specific Recommendations of such Central European countries as Germany and Poland in 2019.
The aim of this master thesis is to examine the reason of implementation avoidance of Country Specific Recommendations in the labour market participation policies of selected Central European countries - Germany and Poland. There is a need in triggers to increase the participation of women, minority groups, and older employees in the workforce. Increased representation of women, underrepresented populations, and older workers in the workforce is necessary for triggering.
The Commission is responsible for this coordination, and in this paper, recommendations related to the labor market participation policy will be analyzed along with Country Reports to achieve the goal of identifying variations in the implementation and additional precedence of recommendations related to the labor market participation strategy in Poland and Germany in 2019. Thesis studies the participation of women, older employees, and tax disincentives within low wage earners.
This master's thesis aims at generating a deeper understanding of the Commission's handling of the European fiscal rules and in doing so takes an original approach in conducting quantitative and qualitative research in line with the Mixed Method design. Emphasizing the latter, a Qualitative Content Analysis is employed to examine the Commission's official documents and ergo their justifications in a targeted manner. The main conclusion that can be drawn from this thesis is that while the Commission seemingly applies a sort of post-Keynesian macroeconomic rationality in their enforcement of the European fiscal rules, this idea has to be refuted when closely examined. It is much rather the political considerations that affect the Commission in their exegesis of the European fiscal rules.