This is a companion paper to Ferragina, Giovannetti and Pastore (2005) and focuses on Romania-EU actual and potential trade. The Romanian trade potential with five EU members (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK) is computed using an “out-of-sample” methodology for the period 1995-‘01....

This short note aims to provide a theoretical framework to think of the youth unemployment problem and a classification of EU countries according to the way they address it. The key factor to explain youth unemployment is what we call the youth experience gap. To help young people to fill their...