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"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …

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The determinants of immigrants’ skill composition

Karapınar Kocağ, Esra; Li, Yutong; Popescu, Cristina … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 9, pp. 1-18

Movements of labor across the world is an ongoing debate in the literature in terms of its drivers and results in sending and receiving areas. Skill composition of immigrant labor has been discussed by several papers, although they generally focused on visa policies or firm level productivity....

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Social protection as an automatic stabilizer

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …

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The state of university policy for progress in Europe

Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Marconi, Gabriele - 2012

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Who cares for you at home? : personal and household services in Europe

Angermann, Annette; Eichhorst, Werner - 2013

Personal and household services have grown in importance as a potential area of employment creation. By formalizing personal and household services, not only can service jobs be created with providers, but also private households can be relieved from informal work in order that women in...

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Down-side risk metrics as portfolio diversification strategies across the global financial crisis

Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael; Powell, Robert; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 9 (2016) 2, pp. 1-18

This paper features an analysis of the effectiveness of a range of portfolio diversification strategies, with a focus on down-side risk metrics, as a portfolio diversification strategy in a European market context. We apply these measures to a set of daily arithmetically-compounded returns, in...

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In Europe we trust?

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Haas, Jasmina - 2016

The decrease in the rule of law and in control of corruption in several EU countries is a threat to the cohesion in the EU. Brexit has reinforced the centrifugal forces in the EU. To counter this threat the EU needs to engage in unpopular measures as they infringe on the Member States'...

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Can the university save Europe?

Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012

Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic …

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The effects of ERM adoption on European insurance firms performance and risks

Jurdi, Doureige J.; AlGhnaimat, Sam M. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 11, pp. 1-17

We investigate the effects of adopting enterprise risk management (ERM) on the performance and risks of European publicly listed insurance firms. Using a dataset for 24 years, we report new results which show that ERM adopters realize significant ERM premiums after controlling for other...

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The relationship between CEO psychological biases, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility

Salhi, Bassem - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 7, pp. 1-19

-year-observations using a sample of European real estate firms indexed on Stoxx Europe 600 Index from 2010 to 2019. To test the developed …

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