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Welfare and employment: a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - 2008

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

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

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2005

reform is that it simply widens the range of goods that are tradeable. This kind of reform is analyzed in a two … East), if (as assumed) the most sophisticated goods are tradeable before reform. Second, under ex-post liberalization … different, however, if there exist asymmetries in labor market institutions, such that upon reform, labor can relocate in the …

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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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The transition from work to retirement

Eichhorst, Werner - 2011

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...

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The Distribution of Well-Being among Europeans

Brandolini, Andrea; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2019

We analyse the evolution of EU citizens' living standards, considering the EU as a single country. Average living standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic...

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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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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Is leisure a normal good? Evidence from the European Parliament

Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2011

Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …

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Reassessing the wage penalty for temps in Germany

Jahn, Elke J. - 2008

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

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Have labour market reforms at the turn of the millennium changed job durations of the new entrants? A comparative study for Germany and Italy

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Villosio, … - 2009

job opportunities and job stability. This paper addresses this issue using administrative longitudinal data for Germany … and Italy, taken as representative examples of continuous and isolated reforms, respectively. The estimated piecewise …-off is not confirmed by the results. In Germany, men have experienced an increase in employment stability over time, mated …

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