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Voting in the European Union – Central Europe’s Lost Voice
Schneider, Ondrej - CESifo - 2008
Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of the EU’s total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members’ impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited....
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EU Enlargement, Migration and the New Constitution
Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 2004
The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western … Europe. Although migration is good in principle, as it yields gains from trade and specialization for all countries involved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405874
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EU Enlargement, Migration, and Lessons from German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - CESifo - 1999
The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later … reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces turns out to be effici e nt, migration should not be artificially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416502
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Implications of EU Accession for International Migration: An Assessment of Potential Migration Pressure
Zaiceva, Anzelika - CESifo - 2004
This paper estimates the potential migration from eight EU accession countries as well as Bulgaria and Romania as a … result of the eastern enlargement. The experience of migration from Greece, Portugal and Spain is used to estimate the … parameters of a migration function, exploiting panel estimation techniques. The results from the models are then used for so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416487
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Growth Effects of Spatial Redistribution Policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - CESifo - 2012
migration and public investment in infrastructure and education. Accumulation and creation of new ideas and technologies as well … as migration are at the core of differential regional growth. In this framework, we assess the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645644
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?
Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2004
An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765732
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2004
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. The European Union could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from migrants. This paper presents calculations on how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406313
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Labour Market Institutions and their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries
Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondrej - CESifo - 2008
This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094425
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What are their Words Worth? Political Plans and Economic Pains of Fiscal Consolidations in New EU Member States
Zápal, Jan; Schneider, Ondrej - CESifo - 2006
In this paper, we track fiscal authority behaviour in the ten new EU member states (NSM) in the period which immediately preceded their EU accession. We first present basic stylized facts about public budgets of those countries. The paper then analyses reasons which led to periods of fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766186
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Fiscal Policy in New EU Member States – Go East, Prudent Man!
Schneider, Ondrej; Zápal, Jan - CESifo - 2005
The European Union (EU) accepted ten new member states (NMS) in 2004. These countries, mostly former socialist countries, have had to adjust their economic policies to the EU’s standards. Perhaps most difficult has proven to be fiscal policy whereby NMS must comply with the Stability and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094350