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Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe : the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779036

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

Explaining how delayed motherhood affects fertility dynamics in Europe

Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the effect of delaying the first child on the transition to the second birth differs both among...

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Lessons from migration after EU enlargement

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …

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Residential mobility and housing adjustment of older households in Europe

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of residential mobility of older households (above 50 years old) and the adjustment of housing for those who move employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel. Although homeowners are less likely to move compared to renters, an...

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Reconciling the estimates of potential migration into the enlarged European Union

Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor) - 2006

which all EU member states introduce free movement of workers simultaneously in 2011. The results suggest that the overall … level of migration from the East will amount to around 1 per cent of the EU15 population within a decade after enlargement …

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Ethnic minorities in the European Union : an overview

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Public opinion on immigration : has the recession changed minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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The slump and immigration policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2014

pressure for tougher immigration policies, governments have been constrained by the composition of immigration and by EU …

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Returning home at times of trouble? : return migration of EU enlargement migrants during the crisis

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 …, leading to a more efficient allocation of resources within the enlarged EU. -- return migration ; EU Eastern enlargement …

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