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Financial Development and Economic Growth : Evidence from Ten New EU Members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047876
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Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth : Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2010
on key macro variables such as consumption, investment, imports and income in Turkey. The estimated impact and dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134982
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2012
level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106643
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Child Growth and Refugee Status : Evidence from Syrian Migrants in Turkey
Demirci, Murat; Foster, Andrew D.; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2022
This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view … particular, the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS). The TDHS is one of few data sets providing representative data on … mortality between refugee children born in Turkey and native children. However, refugee infants born in Turkey have lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264870
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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?
Lamo, Ana - 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/10013136774
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Sizing it Up : Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27
Constant, Amelie F. - 2011
While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118036
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Emigration and Wages : The EU Enlargement Experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
The enlargement of the European Union provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of the lifting of migration restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to the UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118058
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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance : Evidence Form Four New EU Members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125463
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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement
Elsner, Benjamin - 2012
Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099727
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107468