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Next in Line – Romanians at the Gates of the EU (emigrants, border control, legislation)
SIMINA, Ovidiu - EconWPA - 2005
Luxembourg Presidency. The membership treaty with Bulgaria and Romania will be finalised with a view to signature in 25 April …, the EU Parliament voted 407-262 in favour of Turkey's entry. Romania feels and acts like a European country. You will … rather notice a European flag in Bucharest than in London, for example. Romania is not only a country who makes effort to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408352
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Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Conditions
Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Huang, Peng - EconWPA - 2005
This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the macroeconomic conditions of the host (remittance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119455
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Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Hainmueller, Jens; Hiscox, Michael J. - EconWPA - 2005
Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor market competition as a potent source of anti- immigrant sentiment, in particular among less-educated or less-skilled citizens who fear being forced to compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062482
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The Effect of Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants' Earnings
Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2001
Since recent immigrants tend to earn less than natives, their relative labor market status has been adversely impacted by an increase in the return to labor market skills and widening wage inequality over the past two decades. To evaluate the magnitude of this effect, this study uses Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408315
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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556413
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The Romanian Economy in Transition: Developments and Future Prospects
Scrieciu, Serban; Winker, Peter - EconWPA - 2004
We address the macroeconomic developments experienced by Romania in a decade of transition towards a market driven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561190
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“Dynamic Effects of Migrant Remittances on Growth: An Econometric Model with an Application to Mediterranean Countries”. Discussion Paper, No. 74, KEPE, Athens, 2002.
GLYTSOS, NICHOLAS - EconWPA - 2005
This paper builds a Keynesian type econometric model with a dynamic perspective and a sound theoretical basis, for investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076545
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Directions of Trade Flows and Labor Movements between High- And Low-Population Growth Countries: An Overlapping Generations General Equilibrium Analysis
Sayan, Serdar; Uyar, Ali Emre - EconWPA - 2002
This paper considers a two-country world where the population in one country grows faster than the other, and investigates the implications of the addition of non-stationary population dynamics to a simple 2- commodity, 2-factor model of international trade within an overlapping- generations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125644
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying for Migration and Teaching for Staying?
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2004
Both current and especially new member states of the European Union face incentives to distort the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education towards country-specific skills. This would mean educating too few engineers, economists and doctors, and too many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125879
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Educating Europe
Poutvaara, Panu - EconWPA - 2003
The mobility of labor reduces national incentives to invest in internationally applicable education. Such effects may be especially severe for the prospective new member states of the European Union. The European Union could overcome this by allowing countries to institute graduate taxes or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125946