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Monetary Unions of Small Currencies and a Dominating Member: What Policies Work Best for Benefiting from the CMA?

Wörgötter, Andreas; Brixiova, Zuzana - 2020

This policy paper underscores the importance of credible currency regimes and their macroeconomic underpinnings for stability in financial systems and long-term economic convergence of developing and emerging market economies. It suggests that for developing regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa,...

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Inclusive growth : the case of Germany

Schmid, Günther - 2018

This paper argues that inclusive growth appears to be the only suitable strategy for realising the right to decent work (RDW) in the digital economy. This reasoning is in blunt opposition to the current mood of giving up this right in favour of an unconditional basic income (UBI). The study...

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Governing sustainable school to work transitions : lessons for the EU

Schmid, Günther; Bellmann, Lutz; Gazier, Bernard; … - 2023

The European Commission declared 2022 the "European Year of Youth." Apart from the obvious aim to enhance its visibility and political legitimacy, the Commission responded to the fact that COVID-19 badly affected especially young people, manifested in the rise of youth unemployment and of youth...

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Underrepresentation of women in undergraduate economics degrees in Europe : a comparison with STEM and business

Megalokonomou, Rigissa; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian; … - 2021

, our paper describes the cross-country underrepresentation of women graduating in economics degrees in Europe relative to … of women pursuing undergraduate economics degrees in Europe with a strong focus on policies aimed at high schools … Europe and that on average two of every five students are women. While the gender representation of university graduates in …

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Flexible and secure labour market transitions : towards institutional capacity building in the digital economy

Schmid, Günther - 2016

Industry 4.0 and robots are said to speed up productivity thereby inducing a 'quantum leap' towards the 'end of work' and calling for a complete change of social security institutions that have so far been closely linked to employment. Unconditional basic income is the cry of the day, curiously...

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In Europe we trust?

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Haas, Jasmina - 2016

The decrease in the rule of law and in control of corruption in several EU countries is a threat to the cohesion in the EU. Brexit has reinforced the centrifugal forces in the EU. To counter this threat the EU needs to engage in unpopular measures as they infringe on the Member States'...

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"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …

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Immigrant key workers : their contribution to Europe's COVID-19 response

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

This note describes the contribution of migrant workers to the ongoing effort to keep basic services running in the Union during the COVID-19 epidemic. We quantify the prevalence of migrant workers in the so called "key professions" that the Commission and Member States have identified using the...

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European identity and the learning union

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Haas, Jasmina; Neeleman, Annemarie; … - 2016

Europe and the European Union are close in values, in culture and in attitudes. Yet the EU has made little attempt to … jointly reinforce the emotional attachment to Europe. Member States stress their differences in national identity through …

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Social protection as an automatic stabilizer

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …

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