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Immigration in Europe : Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence

de la Rica, Sara - 2013

This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in various important European destination countries and...

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Laterborns Don't Give Up : The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe

Bertoni, Marco - 2013

While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...

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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

structure all existing data and other pieces of information on immigrants coming to Poland from the EU Eastern Partnership … disparities existing both between EAPs and Poland as well as between Poland and the EU old member states. Nevertheless, the study … strong and sustained growth contributing to Poland's welfare growth and also due to large scale emigration from Poland to EU …

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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries

Clark, Kenneth - 2013

comparison to migrants from the new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EUA8 countries). Migrants from the EaP countries …

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Full Employment : A Distant Dream for Europe

Gill, Indermit Singh - 2013

Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform.There are...

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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...

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Mobility in an Enlarging European Union : Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia

Fertig, Michael - 2013

-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …

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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence

D'Adamo, Gaetano - 2013

During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...

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The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium : Evidence from Europe

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013

Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to temporary jobs. The countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland,...

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How Far Away is a Single European Labor Market?

Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle - 2014

A Single European Labor Market, particularly involving the free movement of workers within Europe, has been a goal of the European community since the 1950s. Whereas it may entail opportunities and drawbacks alike, the benefits – such as greater economic welfare for most citizens – are...

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