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Making sense of Bolkestein-bashing: trade liberalization under segmented labor markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2005

Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called Bolkestein directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods that...

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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

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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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2003

identical countries induces a relocation of firms which increases with the level of economic integration as measured by trade … the level of integration is shown to be bell-shaped. …

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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...

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Assimilation and integration of immigrants in Europe

Aleksynska, Mariya; Algan, Yann - 2010

' outcomes and specific policies aimed at immigrants' integration are rather disparate, raising further questions regarding both …

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Immigration: The European experience

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2011

integration in the different European countries, their position in the wage distribution, and the situation of their children, and …

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The role of association agreements within European Union enlargement to Central and Eastern European countries

Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, Anamaria - 2007

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...

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Welfare and employment: a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - 2008

employment growth, especially for women and more recently older workers. European economic integration has fundamentally recast …

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Emigration and wages: The EU enlargement experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

The enlargement of the European Union provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of the lifting of migration restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to the UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to...

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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2003

, 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 and qualitative assessment of the impact of economic integration on … nexus not only on an economy-wide level, but analyze whether the impact of integration varies for different sectors …

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