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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

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

Regional growth cycle synchronisation with the Euro Area

Tondl, Gabriele (contributor); Siedschlag, Iulia (contributor) - 2006

European Union and the Euro Area. Using a panel data of 208 EU-15 regions over the period 1989-2002 we estimate a system of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359770

Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 48 per cent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … 23 to 32 per cent in the EU and 19 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic stabilizers …

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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

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...

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Measuring international technology spillovers and progress towards the European research area

Siedschlag, Iulia - 2009

The objective of this paper is to contribute to the development of an evidence-based system to monitor progress towards the European Research Area (ERA) and a knowledge-based economy. We start with an overview of existing theory and empirical evidence on the role of international technology...

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What determines the attractiveness of the European Union to the location of R&D multinational firms?

Siedschlag, Iulia; Smith, Donal; Turcu, Camelia; Zhang, … - 2009

We analyse 446 location decisions of foreign affiliates in the R&D sector incorporated in the European Union over 1999-2006. Our results suggest that on average, the location probability increases with the size of demand, agglomeration economies, low production cost, R&D intensity, flexibility...

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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU

Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality …

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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...

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