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Labour market dynamics and worker heterogeneity during the Great Recession : evidence from Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy; Kramer, Anica; … - 2015

Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type of employment contract, and on cross-country...

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The transition to self-employment and perceived skill-mismatches: panel data evidence from eleven EU countries

Albiol Sánchez, Judit; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Teruel … - 2020

Some studies using either objective or subjective indicators, find that self-employed individuals are less likely to be or to report being skill-mismatched in comparison with salaried employees. The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of the transition from salaried employment to...

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Part-time work in EU countries : labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2005

This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...

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Labour market concentration, wages and job security in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...

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Did post-enlargement labor mobility help the EU to adjust during the Great Recession? : the case of Slovakia

Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2014

This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU … labor market conditions in receiving countries and Slovakia. We show that besides the standard demographic factors …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …

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Costs and benefits of labour mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries country study : Italy

Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - 2013

Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...

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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...

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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...

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Is a policy of free movement of workers sustainable?

Picard, Pierre M.; Worrall, Timothy - 2014

This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...

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Migration and labor market integration in Europe

Dorn, David; Zweimüller, Josef - 2021

The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31 countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across European countries remain considerably lower than interstate migration in the United States, and spatial variation in...

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