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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

Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898065

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

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

Earnings inequality in Europe : structure and patterns of inter-temporal changes

Cholezas, Ioannis (contributor); … - 2007

. Considerable cross-country differences are observed across the EU regarding both the level and the structure of earnings inequality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451841

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

The determinants of poverty transitions in Europe and the role of duration dependence

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2011

discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member … highlight the mechanisms that bring individuals into and out of poverty. -- poverty dynamics ; EU …

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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....

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Once poor, always poor? : do initial conditions matter? ; evidence from the ECHP

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2011

empirical results are similar in qualitative but rather different in quantitative terms across EU countries. State dependence … endogeneity bias. -- poverty dynamics ; EU ; ECHP …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009410576

On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

numerous attempts at developing a common European asylum policy, EU countries continue to differ widely in interpretation and … movements, illegal border crossings, and asylum applications to EU member states. We next turn to the economics of refugee …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543213