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cjers-2563	Galgóczi, Béla	Economic and Social Balance of 15 Years of Eastern Enlargement	2020	19	.pdf	application/pdf	7676	299	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). Development of relative wage levels to EU15 From the 2004 ‘Big Bang’ EU enlargement up to the 2009 crisis, it has been taken for granted that wage convergence for poorer new member states to the high-income core of the EU is only a matter of time.	cache/cjers-2563.pdf	txt/cjers-2563.txt