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High-skilled immigration policy in Europe
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303832
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An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges
Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
The standard approach of analysing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009303847
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A simple, analytically solvable, Chamberlinian agglomeration model
Pflüger, Michael - 2003 - Final version
This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, contains two agglomerative forces. However, in contrast to that model, the present model is analytically solvable. Moreover, the present model exhibits a 'supercritical pitchfork...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438277
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817751
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Migration, co-ordination failures and EU enlargement
Boeri, Tito (contributor); Brücker, Herbert (contributor) - 2005
EU leaders are well aware of the relevance of migration in the European policy agenda. Thirty-two pages out of forty-eight of the Presidency Conclusions at the November 2004 European Council were devoted to migration policies. Economic theory suggests that there is a strong case for policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002830999
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European labour mobility : challenges and potentials
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low -skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002417322
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The Russian-Ukrainian political divide
Constant, Amelie (contributor); Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006
Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003411690
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The Russian-Ukrainian earnings divide
Constant, Amelie (contributor); Kahanec, Martin (contributor) - 2006
between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians throughout Ukraine's transition era. We establish that language rather than nationality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377171
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Zum wirtschaftspolitischen Reformschritt der Ukraine und zur Konditionalität der westlichen Hilfe
Thießen, Ulrich - 2000
Die Rezession hielt in der Ukraine seit Beginn der Transformation an. Gleichzeitig zeigen Indikatoren für den … ordnungspolitischen Transformationsfortschritt, daß die Ukraine zu der Gruppe weniger östlicher Transformationsländer gehört, die einen … Charakteristika der makroökonomischen Entwicklung in der Ukraine während der Transformation zu bewerten. Es gibt außerdem einen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432611
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Options for transporting Russian gas to Western Europe : a game-theoretic simulation analysis
Chollet, Andreas; Meinhart, Berit; Hirschhausen, … - 2001
transiting countries, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The development of a new transit corridor through Belarus (the Yamal …-Europe pipeline), depriving Ukraine of its former monopoly, has modified the situation profoundly. The thrust of the paper is an … analysis of the strategies that Ukraine and Belarus may pursue in transiting Russian gas: non-cooperative duopoly, cooperative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435015