. First, the paper develops stylised facts of mobility at the national and sub-national levels in the EU. Then, it explores … significantly when a country joins the EU. While euro area membership seems not to be associated with an overall rise in the …

The paper sheds light on developments in labour market matching in the EU after the crisis. First, it analyses the main … features of the Beveridge curve and frictional unemployment in EU countries, with a view to isolate temporary changes in the … labour market matching deteriorated after the crisis, but with a great deal of heterogeneity across EU countries. Divergence …

This paper analyses both the long and the short-run relation between government expenditure and potential output in EU … comprising EU-15 countries over the 1970-2003 period, it cannot be rejected the hypothesis of a common long-term elasticity …