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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019

For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is … known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the … relationship between migration and support for EU accession in the Western Balkans. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor …

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Working Conditions on Digital Labour Platforms : Evidence from a Leading Labour Supply Economy

Aleksynska, Mariya - 2019

Online labour platforms matching labour supply and demand are profoundly modifying the world of work. Businesses use them to outsource tasks to a world-wide pool of workers; while workers can access work opportunities transcending national boundaries. Increasingly, workers are located in...

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The Economic Impact of East‐West Migration on the European Union

Kahanec, Martin - 2016

investigations on the effects of immigration from new EU member states and Eastern Partnership countries on the economies of old EU … EU member states on old member states' GDP, GDP per capita, and employment rate and a negative effect on output per …‐to‐labor ratio. These results mark an economic success of the EU enlargements and EU's free movement of workers …

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The Rise of the Free Movements : How Posting Shapes a Hybrid Single European Labour Market

Mussche, Ninke - 2016

Intra‐EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra‐EU labour … migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is … with high levels of short term service mobility. Service mobility/posting is as much a phenomenon of intra‐EU15 mobility …

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The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Long-Term Consequences of Unilateral Divorce Laws on Savings of European Households

Angelini, Viola - 2016

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to UDLs for longer time accumulate more savings. This effect...

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Scholarship, the Law and Immigration Policy

DeVoretz, Don J. - 2016

The legal system has entered the immigration policy framework via class action suits which force immigrant receiving countries to address shortfalls in their immigration and citizenship ascension policies. This paper addresses the role of class action lawsuits in the Canadian context

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Etiopathology of Europe's Sick Man : Worker Flows in Germany, 1959-2016

Hartung, Benjamin - 2016

We provide new estimates on worker flow rates in and out of unemployment for Germany covering the last six decades. In the 1980s, Germany emerged as the sick man of Europe with a labor market characterized by persistently high unemployment rates. We attribute a substantial fraction of the rise...

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Ferreira, Maria - 2016

This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal learning on the job are related to employee skill...

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Spatial Segregation and Socio-Economic Mobility in European Cities

van Ham, Maarten - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...

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Determinants of Regional Differences in Rates of Overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, Maria Ángeles - 2016

has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU …

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