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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to … Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … despite a number of positive recent developments Europe lacks a consistent strategy to address this challenge effectively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805620
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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Côte d'Ivoire is the world’s largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294829
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What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?
Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper is composed of two parts. First, using international data, I corroborate that union density in the U.S. declined because of asymmetric growth between the union and nonunion sectors. I show union density to increase in countries experiencing strong manufacturing growth, and to decline...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703802
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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
Robst, John; Polachek, Solomon; Chang, Yuan-Ching - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with geographic distance. Trade reduces conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822632
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On the Multivariate Analysis of the "Lisbon Process"
Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764609
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A Decade of Labour Market Reforms in the EU: Insights from the LABREF Database
Turrini, Alessandro; Koltay, Gabor; Pierini, Fabiana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper analyses the determinants and impact of labour market reforms in the European Union over the period of 2000-2011. The source of information on reforms is the LABREF database developed in DG ECFIN of the European Commission in cooperation with the Economic Policy Committee of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884385
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an … enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of free labor mobility proved to be unjustified. No significant detrimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279252
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Social Capital, Innovation and Growth: Evidence from Europe
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703394
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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP
Tsakloglou, Panos; Papadopoulos, Fotis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from "poverty" to "social exclusion". Broadly interpreted, "social exclusion" implies the "inability of an individual to participate in the basic political, economic and social functionings of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703549