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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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