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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements

Caroleo, Floro E. - 2007

This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU : What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?

Pastore, Francesco - 2009

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … endowment via a deep reform of education and training systems. This shift is also taking place worldwide, since, as recent … quality, more inclusive to reduce the dropout rate, homogeneous to other EU countries to favour labour mobility, flexible to …

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Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?

Meara, Katie - 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-Term Solution of the Euro Crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2015

social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering …

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The European Youth Guarantee : Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and neoclassical ones, as also the experience of...

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An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano

Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022

This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...

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The Duration of the School-to-Work Transition in Italy and in Other European Countries : A Flexible Baseline Hazard Interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2022

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU …

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The Labour Market Impact of Covid-19 : Early Evidence for a Sample of Enterprises from Southern Europe

Webster, Allan; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2023

This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. The evidence and the analysis are provided at a time when the pandemic is still in progress. The...

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