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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union

Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018

(EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Norwegian rhapsody? : the political economy benefits of regional integration

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2015

European Union (EU), had successfully completed negotiations and fulfilled all accession requirements, taken membership in the … European Economic Area (with full access to the Single Market), but decided in a referendum to reject full-fledged EU … politically driven economic benefits from EU membership: if Norway had joined the EU in 1995, productivity levels between 1995 and …

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Economic growth and political integration : estimating the benefits from membership in the European Union using the synthetic counterfactuals method

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2014

European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995 and 2004 enlargements, if those countries had not joined the EU. We find large … positive effects from EU membership but these differ across countries and over time (they are only negative for Greece). We …

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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016

has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU …

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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014

This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...

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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014

effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female …

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Unemployment benefits and reservation wages : key elasticities from a stripped-down job search approach

Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2008

This paper exploits survey information on reservation wages and data on actual wages from the European Community Household Panel to deduce in the manner of Lancaster and Chesher (1983) additional parameters of a stylized structural search model; specifically, reservation wage and...

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