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This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by … various important European destination countries and Europe as a whole. We then discuss key policy issues in the European …
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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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Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … Europeans. Layered on top of these weak labor markets is the rapid onset of aging; if policies are not changed, Europe will lose … about a million workers every year for the next five decades, especially in the 2030s. In short, Europe has to increase both …
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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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In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...
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. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central Asia, we find that older individuals are less …
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-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …
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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …
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cognitive abilities on average? Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we find … in Europe and use an instrumental variable analysis to further estimate the potential impact of height on cognitive …
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Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also … higher education in Europe and investigate potential explanations for the strong increase in its international orientation …
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