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Managing refugee protection crises: policy lessons from economics and political science

Hangartner, Dominik; Sarvimäki, Matti; Spirig, Judith - 2021

We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in developed countries, with a particular focus on the 2015 European refugee protection crisis and its aftermath. In the first part of the paper, we examine the consequences of...

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The duration of the school-to-work transition in Italy and in other European countries: a flexible baseline hazard interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2021

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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Asylum recognition rates in Europe: persecution, policies and performance

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2021

A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a …

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Sharp teeth or empty mouths? : revisiting the minimum wage bite with sectoral data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013

The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...

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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe

Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

With worldwide migration becoming increasingly prevalent in policy agendas over the past several decades, understanding the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be an important research agenda. There is a large literature documenting the effects that migrants...

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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels

Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022

the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric …

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The causal impact of depression on cognitive functioning: evidence from Europe

Nafilyan, Vahé; Pabon, Mauricio Avendano; Coulon, … - 2021

Cognitive skills are important determinants of employment and productivity in older adults. Although cognitive decline is often linked to changes in mental health, the causal nature of the association between mental illness and cognitive performance is not established. In this paper, we analyse...

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Loneliness and social isolation: an unequally shared burden in Europe

D'Hombres, Beatrice; Barjaková, Martina; Schnepf, … - 2021

offers a comparative overview of the incidence and determinants of loneliness and social isolation in Europe in the pre …-COVID-19 period. The empirical results indicate that 8.6% of the adult population in Europe suffer from frequent loneliness and … 20.8% from social isolation, with eastern Europe recording the highest prevalence of both phenomena. Trends over time do …

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The gender aspect of immigrants' assimilation in Europe

Lee, Tae Hoon; Peri, Giovanni; Viarengo, Martina - 2020

The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence between immigrants and natives and examining this under-studied dimension in a comprehensive study...

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Interventions with positive side-effects: COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and infectious diseases in Europe

Kaiser, Micha; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2020

To assess the efficacy of Covid-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on infectious disease containment in Europe …

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