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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …

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The role of association agreements within European Union enlargement to Central and Eastern European countries

Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor); … - 2007

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...

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Public education in an integrated Europe : studying to migrate and teaching to stay?

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006

This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are...

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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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The effect of migration and spatial connectivity on regional skill endowments across Europe : 1988 - 2010

Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...

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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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Making sense of Bolkestein-bashing : trade liberalization under segmented labor markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles (contributor) - 2005

, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002852797

Retrospective causal inference via matrix completion, with an evaluation of the effect of European integration on cross-border employment

Poulos, Jason; Albanese, Andrea; Mercatanti, Andrea; Li, Fan - 2021

We propose a method of retrospective counterfactual imputation in panel data settings with later-treated and always-treated units, but no never-treated units. We use the observed outcomes to impute the counterfactual outcomes of the later-treated using a matrix completion estimator. We propose a...

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The EU anchor thesis: transition from socialism, the institutional vacuum and membership in the European Union

Campos, Nauro - 2021

Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis … posits that the prospect of membership in the European Union (EU) played a key role in filling in the institutional vacuum …, focusing on whether the prospect of EU membership accelerated institutional development and, if so, whether this was indeed …

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Close encounters of the European kind: economic integration, sectoral heterogeneity and structural reforms

Campos, Nauro; Eichenauer, Vera; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020

This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time...

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