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use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration ows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period 2002 …-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration ows to labor … would have been worse off after the enlargement. We study even further the interaction effects between trade and migration …
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factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may … nullify the'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor migration is governed not only by net-of-tax factor rewards, but rather … importantly also by the benefits that the welfare state provides. The paper analyzes fiscal competition with and without migration …
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This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects of various institutional setups and of their changes...
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migration to those countries with the highest levels of welfare benefits. The paper concludes that migration is limited by the … incentives. On the other hand, migration is attractive for those working in the informal sector of host countries …
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future members from Central and Eastern Europe. For the sample period 1995-2005, the fiscal balance exhibits less inertia and is more counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European...
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Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
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Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004-2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...
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We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum, and that past European transfers have played virtually no role in...
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
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