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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance : Evidence Form Four New EU Members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries

Clark, Kenneth - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU

Kalíšková, Klára - 2015

This study contributes to the female labor supply responsiveness literature by measuring the effect of tax-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD is used to calculate a measure of work...

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Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries

Cottini, Elena - 2010

Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively deteriorated with adverse effects on psychological well being and mental health. This paper investigates...

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Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe : The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation...

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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria - 2021

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...

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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe

Peri, Giovanni - 2020

There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous studies in this literature have focused on a particular country or attack, limiting their generalizability. Ours is the first comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects...

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Borderline Disorder : (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa : Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland

Brixiova, Zuzana - 2014

The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a model of costly firm creation and skill differences between...

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