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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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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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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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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283120
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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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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015
Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333569
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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