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Euroscepticism and the rise of populist parties have often been linked to economic insecurity. This paper identifies regional employment changes as causal factors for forming attitudes towards the European Union and voting for eurosceptic parties in European Parliament elections. To do so, I...
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The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...
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After nearly fifteen years of transition, the countries of Central Europe have entered the European Union on 1 May 2004. For the four countries that are members of the OECD (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovak Republic), accession follows multiyear efforts of economic stabilisation and...
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that the shocks associated with the free movement of workers from Eastern Europe have temporarily increased unemployment in …
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Die Studie "EU-Erweiterung und Arbeitskräftemigration" wurde vom ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung , München, im Forschungsbereich Sozialpolitik und A r - beitsmärkte erstellt und im Dezember 2000 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Sozialordnung ....
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of the wage, price and unemployment dynamics that have taken place in … achieved by two types of Phillips curve mechanisms; one where the inflation/unemployment trade-off was triggered off for … rate and the interest rate. Excess wages and/or increasing cost levels in the tradable sector led to higher unemployment …
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, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier … jobs because no major reforms to labor market institutions were recently implemented in the region. Instead, the main cause …
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The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalisation on international labour migration in the enlarged EU in a structural NEG approach. The liberalisation of migration policy would induce additional 1.80 - 2.98 percent of the total EU workforce to change their country of location,...
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Early, the convergence theory was suggestively expressed in the Solow model. This can be shown in line with the fact that while economic development is advancing (expressed by the income per capita growth), on long run there is a general convergence process among countries. Generally, empirical...
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