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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
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Do reservation wages really decline? : Some international evidence on the determinants of reservation wages
Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2008
Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652702
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Where do the brainy Italians go?
Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008
/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the brainy Italians exhibit a higher predicted probability to go to the US …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652707
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Exploring international differences in rates of return to education : evidence from EU SILC
Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2009
This paper uses EU-SILC data from 2005 and 2006 to explore the hypothesis that international differences in rates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880411
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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2009
Interpretation of the phenomenon of graduate overeducation remains problematical. In an attempt to resolve at least some of the issues this paper makes use of the panel element of the HILDA survey, distinguishing between four possible combinations of education/skills mismatch. For men we find a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880505
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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
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The reservation wage unemployment duration nexus
Addison, John T.; Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro - 2010
A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008778692
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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes : panel evidence on australian university graduates
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2010
The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779138
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925496
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The transition from work to retirement
Eichhorst, Werner - 2011
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy … of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU … supranational policy initiatives and national politico-economic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229627