-globalist assumptions of the "Lisbon process", the policy target of the European leaders since the EU's Lisbon Council meeting in March 2000 … for current policy-making in Europe, and opt for an industrial policy approach in the tradition of former EU …

responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states … enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU … shortages exceeds that of natives in the EU15, in particular in member states with higher unemployment rates, higher levels of …

reduction. The empirical results are based on a panel data estimation using the EU-15 countries data observed from 1995 to 2010 …

-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU LFS we first measure immigrant-native gaps in labor force participation …

immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non-EU … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …

, the data presented in this article suggest that apart from Finland and the Netherlands, three new EU-27 member countries …

ranking by the two indices, it is shown that the United States outperformed most EU-member states. Our investigations also … difference in the ranking by the two indices, it is shown that the United States outperformed most EU-member states. Our …

-depth look at the Europe 2020 strategy and the goals it sets for the EU, with the aim of shedding light on the question of …