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

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto - 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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Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession : Evidence from Europe

Bachmann, Ronald - 2015

Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type of employment contract, and on cross-country...

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Matching Efficiency and Heterogeneous Workers in the UK

Lisauskaite, Elena - 2022

The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … characteristics of unemployed, using the standard aggregate matching function. Consistent with the findings for the US (Barnichon and …

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Sizing it Up : Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Constant, Amelie - 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...

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Migrating Workers and Jobs : A Challenge to the European Social Model?

Heitmueller, Axel; Commander, Simon John; Tyson, Laura … - 2006

This paper proceeds from two key assumptions. The first is that European countries are likely to face increased immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to other regions of the world through offshoring is also likely to increase. It has been widely argued...

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Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country : North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2011

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...

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Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power

Rupert, Peter - 2009

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on the bargaining power of workers. Since not all combinations of distance and wages are accepted,...

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Classification Error in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models : Implications for Female Labor Supply Behavior

Sauer, Robert M. - 2006

Two key issues in the literature on female labor supply are: (1) if persistence in employment status is due to unobserved heterogeneity or state dependence, and (2) if fertility is exogenous to labor supply. Until recently, the consensus was that unobserved heterogeneity is very important, and...

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Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Prowse, Victoria L. - 2010

This paper extends existing work on labor force participation dynamics by distinguishing between full-time and part-time employment and allowing unobserved heterogeneity in the effects of previous employment outcomes, children and education on employment dynamics. The results reveal significant...

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The COVID-19 Pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean Countries : The Labor Supply Impact by Gender

Viollaz, Mariana; Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2022

We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we compare labor market stocks and labor market flows over four quarters for a set of balanced panel...

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