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South-North Refugee Migration: Lessons for Development Cooperation

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

As exemplified in the 1995 Mediterranean Declaration of the European Union, migration has become a major concern for European development policies. By enhancing socio-economic conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach...

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The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?

Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

In the last 20 years, developed countries have struggled with what seemed to be an ever-rising tide of asylum seekers, a trend that has now gone into reverse. This paper examines what happened and why. How have oppression, violence and economic conditions in origin countries shaped worldwide...

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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …, particularly in Europe. Finally, we ask whether greater international coordination could produce better outcomes for refugee …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves. …

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The Economic Performance of Germany's East European Immigrants

Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects … German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native born West Germans. Ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Europe …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …

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Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe’s Exit from Gold, January 1928- December 1936

Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that the decision of exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a quite limited set...

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The Political Economy of Monetary Union in Europe

De Grauwe, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The Maastricht transition strategy towards monetary union is based on the idea that the transition strategy should be gradual, and that entry into the union should be conditional on the fulfilment of convergence criteria. It is argued in this paper that this approach is not based on an economic...

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Productivity, Wages and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the US, Japan and Europe

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies …. The primary theme of the paper is that the differences between Europe and the United States have been substantially … exaggerated in recent work. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the United States …

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Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital

A'Hearn, Brian; Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Western Europe had already diverged from the East and reached high numeracy levels by 1600, long before the rise of mass …

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Does 1992 Come Before or After 1990? On Regional Versus Multilateral Integration

Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

, the completion of Europe's domestic market could exert a profound influence on nonmember countries. This paper examines …

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