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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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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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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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How far away is a single European labor market?

Krause-Pilatus, 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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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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The distribution of well-being among Europeans

Brandolini, Andrea; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2019

We analyse the evolution of EU citizens' living standards, considering the EU as a single country. Average living standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic...

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GDP and the value of family caretaking : how much does Europe care?

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; … - 2010

This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a whole was missing so far, mainly due to data limitations. This paper fills this gap using a...

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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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