Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 635
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590825
Cover Image
Europe agreements and trade balance : evidence from four new EU members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009296317
Cover Image
Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … hand also a vast majority of them come to Mazowieckie (Warsaw) Voivodeship. The study also confirms Poland is often not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196429
Cover Image
Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms : the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Wintermann, Ole (contributor) - 2005
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional pre-conditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285403
Cover Image
Policy evaluation and economic policy advice
Schmidt, Christoph M. (contributor) - 2007
Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003577794
Cover Image
Economic science and political influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683154
Cover Image
Job loss : bridging the research and policy discussion
Lynch, Lisa M. (contributor) - 2005
In this paper I discuss a structural problem facing the United States with respect to our policy responses in the context of trade and technological change and their impact on workers. Both trade and technological change have put enormous pressure on the U.S. economy to raise the skill level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002659566
Cover Image
Advising policymakers through the media
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001896184
Cover Image
Memorandum : Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung
Hauser, Richard; Wagner, Gert G.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Based on the hypothesis that microdata are of crucial importance for internationally competitive economic research and scientific advice in economic and social policy, the authors develop various proposals for an improved data supply for empirical work in Germany. Present shortcomings are mainly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294526
Cover Image
'Klin'-ing up : effects of Polish tax reforms on those in and on those out
Morawski, Leszek (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2008
In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. We show that when considered together the package of introduced reforms brought much greater reductions in the tax burden compared to a widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760312