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Unemployment insurance in Europe : unemployment duration and subsequent employment stability
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006
"The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient matching process, as the unemployed can search for a longer period, has attracted much less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359283
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : A cross-country analysis of gender gaps
Olivetti, Claudia (contributor);  … - 2006
explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those … small in the US, the UK and most central and northern EU countries, and becomes sizeable in Ireland, France and southern EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332302
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In search for important determinants of these transitions, six EU-countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement …. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824777
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906225
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A note on unhappiness and unemployment duration
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2006
Although it is now widely-accepted that unemployment is associated with sharply lower levels of individual well-being, relatively little is known about how this effect depends on unemployment duration. Data from three large-scale European panels is used to shed light on this issue; these data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003490824
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Attitudes towards immigration : does economic self-interest matter?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Schroll, … - 2006
In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people's attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing literature, there are two main contributions of the present paper. First, we develop a more powerful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003467008
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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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Public education in an integrated Europe : studying to migrate and teaching to stay?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504676
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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