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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?

Lamo, Ana - 2010

This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...

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Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U : The Spanish Perspective

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2014

This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...

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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union : Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Kahanec, Martin - 2014

The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional...

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Strategic Fertility Behaviour, Early Childhood Human Capital Investments and Gender Roles in Albania

Grogan, Louise - 2018

Preferences for male children in Albania are shown to have persisted through nearly half a century of communist rule …

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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration : Empirical Evidence on the 'Left Behind' Generation in Albania

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2010

in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … - mainly by fathers - is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households' incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …

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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation

Pages, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2021

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....

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Son Targeting Fertility Behavior in Albania

Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Milla, Joniada - 2022

The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the …

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Implications of the Polish 1999 Administrative Reform for Regional Socio-Economic Development

Myck, Michal - 2019

On 1 January 1999, four major reforms took effect in Poland in the areas of health, education, pensions and local administration. After 20 years, only in the last case does the original structural design remain essentially unchanged. We examine the implications of this reform from the...

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Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants

Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...

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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms : A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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