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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 …
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This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely...
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We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination …
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This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link …
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Cognitive skills are important determinants of employment and productivity in older adults. Although cognitive decline is often linked to changes in mental health, the causal nature of the association between mental illness and cognitive performance is not established. In this paper, we analyse...
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This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
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In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in … Union. We find that the self-employed in Europe generally face significantly higher income poverty risks than contracted …
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differs across countries in Europe. Most, if not all, of the wage gap is unexplained in some countries, predominantly in … Eastern Europe, while in some central and peripheral countries, differences between the characteristics of males and females … differential in Europe is 12.2 percent and gender differences in job preferences are associated with a 1.3 percentage point …
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