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Employment and education policy for young people in the EU: what can new member states learn from old member states?

Pastore, Francesco (contributor) - 2007

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … quality, more inclusive to reduce the dropout rate, homogeneous to other EU countries to favour labour mobility, flexible to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646691

A new regional geography of Europe? : The labour market impact of the EU enlargements

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto (contributor); … - 2007

"This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451835

Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308548

Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014

This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402100

The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and neoclassical ones, as also the experience of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498539

A tale of parallel integration processes : a gravity analysis of EU trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries

Ferragina, Anna (contributor); … - 2005

Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is … still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we … compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to 2002 using an "out-of-sample" methodology. The coefficients are …

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Factor endowment and market size in EU-CEE trade : would human capital change the actual quality trade patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe

Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022

This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163647

The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective

Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022

holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275384

The duration of the school-to-work transition in Italy and in other European countries: a flexible baseline hazard interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2021

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698061