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The Brexit Referendum and Three Types of Regret
Drinkwater, Stephen; Jennings, Colin - 2022
In this paper we examine three forms of regret in relation to the UKâ s hugely significant referendum on EU membership … that was held in June 2016. These are, (i) whether leave voters at the referendum subsequently regretted their choice (in … individuals were more likely to indicate that it is everyoneâ s duty to vote following the referendum.We find evidence in favour …
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union : An Overview
Kahanec, Martin - 2010
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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Public Education in an Integrated Europe : Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?
Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...
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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
favourably in a hypothetical EU referendum. At the same time, only people with relatives abroad are more likely to consider EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870238
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Crossing Borders : Labor Market Effects of European Integration
Illing, Hannah - 2023
This paper studies the labor market effects of out- and in-migration in the context of cross-border commuting. It investigates an EU policy reform that granted Czech citizens full access to the German labor market, resulting in a Czech commuter outflow across the border to Germany. Exploiting...
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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries
Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria - 2021
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...
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Regional Variations in the Brexit Vote : Causes and Potential Consequences
Blackaby, David - 2020
There were large regional differentials in the Brexit vote. Most notably, the percentage voting to leave the EU ranged … to provide a more nuanced picture of regional differences in the Brexit vote by examining in particular the role that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826229
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126136
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio - 2013
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
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