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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

Kahanec, Martin - 2011

Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to … Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … despite a number of positive recent developments Europe lacks a consistent strategy to address this challenge effectively …

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Quantity Over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment

Eichhorst, Werner - 2010

This paper explores the empirical evidence for the claim that non-employed men and women in post-industrial labour markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously been the case. It concludes that whilst the unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups...

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More Schooling, More Children : Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health : What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe

Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle - 2013

Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...

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A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Hemerijck, Anton - 2010

The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade ago. But both the institutional set-up and the...

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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …

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Labor Market Reforms in Europe : Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?

Eichhorst, Werner - 2016

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...

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Trends in Economic Research : An International Perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2010

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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