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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...
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Reform Reversal in Former Transition Economies (FTEs) of the European Union : Areas, Circumstances and Motivations
Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie E.; Székely, István P. - 2020
The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the Former Transition Economies (FTEs). The desire for a higher standard of living, to be anchored to the West, and to enter the EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very...
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Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019
people who joined the former ruling party tended have fewer of the traits associated with entrepreneurship such as motivation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859290
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
Estrin, Saul - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market …
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Is European Entrepreneurship in Crisis?
Naudé, Wim - 2016
The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the … entrepreneurship will contribute towards ending the continent's economic malaise. In this article I argue that these expectations may … be disappointed because (i) entrepreneurship promotion is a last-resort policy, (ii) entrepreneurs are being …
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Hybrid (Solo)Self-Employment and Upskilling : Is Online Platform Work a Path Towards Entrepreneurship?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Ranieri, Antonio - 2022
fuller entrepreneurship. We also examine if a digital proto-entrepreneurial experience is sustainable over time by analysing … of necessity, making their journey from proto- to full entrepreneurship less feasible. Our paper provides additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030660
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Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
Koettl, Johannes - 2014
The analysis presented in this paper defines three different synthetic measurements of disincentives for formal work: two standard measurements, namely the tax wedge and the marginal effective tax rate (METR); and a new, innovative measurement called formalization tax rate (FTR). The novelty of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066648
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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries
Clark, Kenneth - 2013
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073868
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074881
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Mobility in an Enlarging European Union : Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia
Fertig, Michael - 2013
This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074882