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Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement

Kahanec, Martin - 2009

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …

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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries

Clark, Kenneth - 2009

Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...

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The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment : Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries

Cingano, Federico - 2009

This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...

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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020

physical proximity to others and their digital intensity.It is conservatively estimated that about 45 million jobs in the EU-27 … labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22% of the … EU workforce – mostly medium- to lower-skilled service provision – is exposed to some significant risk. The burden of the …

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Social Security, Labor Supply and Health of Older Workers : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Reform

Saporta Eksten, Itay - 2020

We study the effects of public pension systems on the retirement timing of older workers and, in turn, the health consequences of delaying retirement by those workers. Causal inference relies on a social security reform in Israel that shifted payments from husbands to their (non-working) wives,...

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Hit by the Silk Road : How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock

Barth, Erling - 2020

Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...

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On the Effects of Covid-19 Safer-at-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution

Brodeur, Abel - 2020

In response to COVID-19, dramatic safer-at-home policies were implemented. The understanding of their impacts on social distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods with rich cellular tracking and high frequency...

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Covid-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility Against Foreigners

Bartos, Vojtech - 2020

Intergroup conflicts represent one of the most pressing problems facing human society. Sudden spikes in aggressive behavior, including pogroms, often take place during periods of economic hardship or health pandemics, but little is known about the underlying mechanism behind such change in...

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Differences Across Countries and Time in Household Expenditure Patterns : Implications for the Estimation of Equivalence Scales

Daley, Angela - 2020

When comparing economic well-being using income or expenditures, an equivalence scale is often used to adjust for differences in characteristics that affect needs. For example, a family of two is assumed to need more income than a single person, but not twice as much due to the economies of...

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Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis

O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2020

Given the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, the State has had to respond rapidly and quite severely to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the virus. This has had significant implications for many aspects of life with differential impacts across the population. The lack of timely...

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