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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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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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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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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
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The impact of the crisis on employment and the role of labour market institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Verónica; Marx, Paul; … - 2010
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302183
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Europe's long-term growth prospects : with and without structural reforms
McQuinn, Kieran; Whelan, Karl - 2015
Even before the financial crisis of 2007/08, there were significant questions about Europe's long-term growth prospects. After a long period of catching up with US levels of labour productivity, euro area productivity growth had, from the mid-1990s onwards, fallen significantly behind. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517186
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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
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A European perspective on long‐term unemployment
Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015
In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels … the EU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333578