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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union : An Overview

Kahanec, Martin - 2010

This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...

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Public Education in an Integrated Europe : Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...

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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019

For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...

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Crossing Borders : Labor Market Effects of European Integration

Illing, Hannah - 2023

This paper studies the labor market effects of out- and in-migration in the context of cross-border commuting. It investigates an EU policy reform that granted Czech citizens full access to the German labor market, resulting in a Czech commuter outflow across the border to Germany. Exploiting...

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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria - 2021

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...

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EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market

Barrett, Alan - 2009

Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession … growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was expected. However, the rate of inflow exceeded all expectations …. Based on census information, the number of EU10 nationals living in Ireland grew from around 10,000 in 2002 to 120,000 in …

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?

O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … between 31 percent of the observed wage gap in the UK and 71 percent in Denmark. When a larger set of control variables is …

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