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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 …

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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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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a …

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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...

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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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How useful is the concept of skills mismatch?

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2017

incidence of various combinations of skills mismatch across the EU. Finally, we review the European Commission's country …

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The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and neoclassical ones, as also the experience of...

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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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Lift the ban? : initial employment restrictions and refugee labour market outcomes

Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2020

This article investigates the medium to long-term effects on refugee labour market outcomes of the temporary employment bans being imposed in many countries on recently arrived asylum seekers. Using a newly collected dataset covering almost 30 years of employment restrictions together with...

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(The struggle for) refugee integration into the labour market : evidence from Europe

Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2018

several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently …

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