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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage … the immigrant wage gap. This is especially true for workers from Poland, Portugal, Italy and Slovakia. For all other …

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Trends in convergence in EU : differences between EU-10 and EU-15

Albu, Lucian-Liviu - 2013

Early, the convergence theory was suggestively expressed in the Solow model. This can be shown in line with the fact that while economic development is advancing (expressed by the income per capita growth), on long run there is a general convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical...

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Cohort size and youth unemployment in Europe : a regional analysis

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2014

Will the projected decline in the youth share of European countries' populations alleviate the currently high levels of youth unemployment in Europe? Economic theory predicts that in the absence of perfectly competitive labour markets, changes in the relative size of age groups will cause...

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The cohort size-wage relationship in Europe

Moffat, John D.; Roth, Duncan - 2013 - Preliminary draft

The demographic and education composition of European countries is changing: the population share of young individuals is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using data on several European countries to cast light on the...

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European structural funds during the crisis : evidence from Southern Italy

Ciani, Emanuele; De Blasio, Guido - 2015 - This version: February 6, 2015

We investigate the effectiveness of European Structural Funds on employment, population and house prices in Local Labor Markets (LLM) located in Southern Italy. We exploit the variability in disbursements between 2007 and 2013 and estimate the impact of the interventions by allowing for...

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Cross-border labour mobility : do East-West and East-East cross-border labour flows differ?

Paas, Tiiu; Mart, Kaska - 2014

The aim of this paper is to outline differences in the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of Estonian people who have worked in a neighbouring country - Finland, Sweden, Latvia or Russia. The empirical part of this paper relies on data from CV Keskus - an online employment portal...

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Do cross-border commuters suffer from education-job mismatch?

Huber, Peter - 2011

The migration literature shows that cross-border skill transfer is associated with a risk of increased job-education mismatch. This paper examines whether the problems of job-education mismatch often found among migrants also apply to cross-border commuters and compares cross-border commuters to...

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A search and matching approach to business-cycle migration in the euro area

Clemens, Marius; Hart, Janine - 2019

Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This reinforced the interest in labor mobility as stabilization tool against the background of heterogeneous labor market conditions. In a data set of 55 bilateral migration...

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Impact of administrative environment on opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship in Europe.

Anders, Justyna - 2011 - Draft paper

necessity entrepreneurship (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, 2004). The analysis refers to period 2004-2009 and takes into … account data for member states of the EU against the background of other selected economies: BRIC, Japan and the USA. The … nations (Djankov et.al., 2006) can also be attributed to direct measures of entrepreneurship and can be also grasped also in a …

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