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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003984793
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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800159
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Factor endowment and market size in EU-CEE trade : would human capital change the actual quality trade patterns?
Ferragina, Anna Maria (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002042720
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Are there gender and country of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations?
Adserà, Alícia (contributor);  … - 2004
those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002529405
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Migration, co-ordination failures and EU enlargement
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Brücker, Herbert (contributor) - 2005
occurred in the case of the Eastern Enlargement of the EU and has involved significant diversion of migration from more … migration, namely i) restricting access to welfare and ii) adopting an EU-wide migration policy. -- migration ; enlargement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002815382
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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014
This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402100
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Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296317
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Sharp teeth or empty mouths? : revisiting the minimum wage bite with sectoral data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738765
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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769782
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A tale of parallel integration processes : a gravity analysis of EU trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries
Ferragina, Anna (contributor);  … - 2005
Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is … still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we … compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to 2002 using an "out-of-sample" methodology. The coefficients are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003275037