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The experience of the Mediterranean countries with accession to the European Communities: Lessons for Poland

Misala, Józef - 1992

Greece has applied for membership in the European Communities on June 13, 1975, Portugal on March 28, 1977, and Spain … January 1, 1981, while Portugal and Spain have become the eleventh and twelth member since January 1, 1986. However, the … routes of these countries to the EC were much longer. The aim of the study is to overview the experience of Greece, Portugal …

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Towards expenditure rules and fiscal sanity in the euro area

Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Sanchez Fuentes, Jesus; … - 2010

The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four “macro-imbalances” countries for the period 1999-2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...

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Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe

Sparreboom, Theo; Tarvid, Alexander - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 1, pp. 15-42

This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...

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Reduction of employment protection in Europe : a comparative fuzzy-set analysis

Ochel, Wolfgang; Rohwer, Anja - 2009

, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …

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Smart choices for growth

Zachmann, Georg - 2012

Recovery in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain is held back in part by structural barriers. Overcoming these requires …

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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe

Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Mercader-Prats, Magda; … - 2005

and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …

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Mispricing of Sovereign Risk and Multiple Equilibria in the Eurozone

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2012

We find evidence that a significant part of the surge in the spreads of the PIGS countries in the Eurozone during 2010-11 was disconnected from underlying increases in the debt to Gdp ratios, and was the result of negative market sentiments that became very strong since the end of 2010. We also...

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