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cjers-2563	Galgóczi, Béla	Economic and Social Balance of 15 Years of Eastern Enlargement	2020-06-01	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7676	303	49	Still, when taking two decades of wage convergence into account (expressed in nominal EUR terms for each CEE country as a percent of the EU15 average), the overall catch-up of wages was substantial, as in 1998, wage levels at this measure ranged from 6.4 percent (Bulgaria) to 47.5 percent (Slovenia), whereas in 2019, the range was between 21.6 percent (Bulgaria) and 64.1 percent (Slovenia). This is an indication that wage levels in CEE are not only much behind Western European levels, but also behind what their own economic performance should have allowed. 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 2 0 1 9 2 0 1 8 2 0 1 7 2 0 1 6 2 0 1 5 2 0 1 4 2 0 1 3 2 0 1 2 2 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 9 2 0 0 8 2 0 0 7 2 0 0 6 2 0 0 5 2 0 0 4 2 0 0 3 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 9 9 9 1 9 9 8 SI EE HR SK CZ LV LT PL HU RO BG 28 Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies, 13 (2) 2019: 20-38 ISSN 2562-8429 Figure 3: Wage and productivity levels in CEE in percent of EU15, at nominal EUR terms Source: Galgoczi (2017) based on AMECO data In spite of a decade of dynamic catching up, wages in CEE are still comparably low.	cache/cjers-2563.pdf	txt/cjers-2563.txt
