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Does foreign language proficiency foster migration of young individuals within the European Union?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014
Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the … country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in itself be determined by the intention to … migrate. In addition, conditional on being a migrant, the relation between language skills and migrants' integration and …
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Education policies and migration across European countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016
educated individuals. Introducing a foreign language into compulsory school curricula on the other hand, almost doubles the … number of emigrants to the country where the language is spoken and increases the total number of emigrants by 20%. Depending …
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Are there gender and country of origin differences in immigrant labor market outcomes across European destinations?
Adserà, Alícia (contributor);  … - 2004
. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men. …. Education matters more for women in terms of explaining earnings, whereas language skills are relatively more important for men …
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Trade as a wage disciplining device
Persyn, Damiaan (contributor) - 2008
We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...
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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
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On the multivariate analysis of the "Lisbon process"
Tausch, Arno (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor);  … - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
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How far away is a single European labor market?
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
A Single European Labor Market, particularly involving the free movement of workers within Europe, has been a goal of the European community since the 1950s. Whereas it may entail opportunities and drawbacks alike, the benefits - such as greater economic welfare for most citizens - are supposed...
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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
This paper uses Indian EUS-NSSO data on 32 states/union territories and 570 districts for a bi-annual panel with 5 waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates, unemployment rates, and wages in fixed-effects regressions...
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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?
Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005
This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...
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Youth employment in Europe : institutions and social capital explain better than mainstream economics
Contini, Bruno - 2010
Why did employment growth – high in the last decade – take place at the expense of young workers in the countries of Central and Southern Europe? This is the question addressed in this paper. Youth unemployment has approached or exceeded 20% despite a variety of factors, common to most EU...
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