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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)...
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Firms and Wage Inequality in Central and Eastern Europe
Magda, Iga - 2019
Recent studies show that firms are playing an increasingly important role in shaping wage inequality in advanced economies. We contribute to this literature by analysing wage inequality patterns and their firm dimension in Central and Eastern European countries. We use large, linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870271
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Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : The Case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … hand also a vast majority of them come to Mazowieckie (Warsaw) Voivodeship. The study also confirms Poland is often not a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073867
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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...
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Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
Koettl, Johannes - 2014
, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and Slovakia), we match disincentives for formal work to individual observations in a large data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066648
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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries
Clark, Kenneth - 2013
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study : Italy
Marchetti, Sabrina - 2013
Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074881
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Mobility in an Enlarging European Union : Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia
Fertig, Michael - 2013
This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074882
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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 countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that opened up and the rapid pace of economic growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158511
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Economic Integration and State Capacity : Evidence from the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union
Bruszt, Laszlo - 2018
We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911177