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The effect of migration and spatial connectivity on regional skill endowments across Europe : 1988 - 2010

Tani, Massimiliano; Manuguerra, Maurizio - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...

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Looking for a star: evaluating the effect of the cohesion policy on regional well-being

Albanese, Giuseppe; Carrieri, Vincenzo; Speziali, Maria … - 2021

This paper presents new evidence on the last concluded wave (2007-2013) of the EU cohesion policy. We depart from the broadly used GDP-growth approach and evaluate the impact of EU Structural Funds (SFs) on a battery of regional well-being indicators including economic, educational, health, and...

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A distribution dynamics approach to regional GDP convergence in unified Germany

Juessen, Falko - 2009

during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified Germany has been substantial. In the …

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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?

Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany … Germany, we establish that nearly half of them experienced a reversal of fortune between 1926 and 2019, i.e., they moved from … the lower to the upper median of the income distribution or vice versa. Economic decline is concentrated in North Germany …

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Regional variations in the Brexit vote: causes and potential consequences

Blackaby, David; Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Robinson, Catherine - 2020

There were large regional differentials in the Brexit vote. Most notably, the percentage voting to leave the EU ranged from 38% in Scotland and 40% in London to 59% in the East and West Midlands. Turnout also varied across Britain, from a low of 67% in Scotland to 77% in the South East and South...

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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016

This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017

Using cross-country data from the European Company Survey, we investigate the relationship between workplace employee representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee motivation, and staff retention. The evidence...

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Loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic : evidence from five European countries

Lepinteur, Anthony; Rebechi, Alessio; Clark, Andrew E.; … - 2024

We use quarterly panel data from the COME-HERE survey covering five European countries to analyse three facets of the experience of loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, in terms of prevalence, loneliness peaked in April 2020, followed by a U-shape pattern in the rest of 2020, and then...

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Does college location affect the location choice of new college graduates? : evidence from China

Huang, Mian; Xing, Chunbing; Xiaoyong, Cui - 2019

Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing cost and to estimate the unobservable location...

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