Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 115
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646699
Cover Image
Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment?
Lamo, Ana; Messina, Julián; Wasmer, Etienne - 2010
This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153578
Cover Image
External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing monetary autonomy, has provided a relatively better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309508
Cover Image
Migration, crisis and adjustment in an enlarged E(M)U : the Spanish perspective
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Farré, Lídia - 2014
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341331
Cover Image
The free movement of workers in an enlarged European Union : institutional underpinnings of economic adjustment
Kahanec, Martin; Pytlikova, Mariola; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010407978
Cover Image
Policy in the pipeline : identifying regional public investment priorities using a natural experiment
Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019
We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest district in Poland. For this purpose, we take advantage of a major administrative re-form, implemented on 1 January 1999, which substantially changed the structure of Polish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993101
Cover Image
Implications of the Polish 1999 administrative reform for regional socio-economic development
Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019
On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993171
Cover Image
Return migration and occupational choice
Piracha, Matloob (contributor); Vadean, Florin (contributor) - 2009
positive impact of migration on job creating activities in Albania. -- Occupational choice ; return migration ; sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793961
Cover Image
Circular migration or permanent return : what determines different forms of migration?
Vadean, Florin P.; Piracha, Matloob - 2009
This paper addresses the following questions: To what extent do the socio-economic characteristics of circular/repeat migrants differ from migrants who return permanently to the home country after their first trip (i.e. return migrants)? and What determines each of these distinctive temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872718
Cover Image
Children’s schooling and parental migration : empirical evidence on the “left behind” generation in Albania
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Mangiavacchi, Lucia - 2010
in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … –mainly by fathers – is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households’ incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003958917