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Integration, labor market regulation, lobbying, and technological change
Palokangas, Tapio - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269270
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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement
Fertig, Michael - 2003
This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process, known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor. Therefore, the paper aims at providing a quantitative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261627
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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade. Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo-H-O model based on factor endowment and an ?economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261889
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On the multivariate analysis of the Lisbon process
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; Bajalan, Chemen S.J. - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268253
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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Janicki, Hubert P. - 2008
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268540
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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending
Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...
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Immigrant child poverty in Scandinavia: a panel data study
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2009
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269314
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - 2014
administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481564
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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345387
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Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Jakobsen, Vibeke; Mac Innes, … - 2021
, Yugoslavia and Turkey living in Denmark or Sweden in 2010. Income data on all such persons aged 65 to 82 living in the two … destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied … Yugoslavia or Turkey who had immigrated to Denmark during the '70s and '80s were more likely to be in poverty in 2010 that their …
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