This work attempts to examine how the global financial crisis has affected the education sector and more specifically, universities. So our paper examines the universities public funding especially in Europe, the mobility of teaching staff, students etc. Also the impact of the financial crisis...

Recent literatures on entrepreneurship and economic growth estimate the empirical relationships between the following pairs of variables: (1) institutions and entrepreneurial activity; (2) institutions and economic growth; and (3) entrepreneurship and economic growth.This paper revisits each of...

Many researches and practical experiences clearly indicate the existence of a strong relationship between entrepreneurial activities and the business environment in which these activities are initiated. Although this topic has been quite ignored until the late twentieth century, a lot of studies...

A number of previous studies have looked at the effect of financial crises on actual output several years beyond the crisis. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the growth of potential output also is affected by recessions, whether or not they include financial crises. Trend per...

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call "the...

This paper documents and seeks to explain the remarkably positive employment trends of a central area of London in the years since the onset of the financial crisis. The volatility of this economy since the 1980s had suggested the likelihood of a sharp loss of jobs, maybe followed by a strong...

In the present paper an effort will be made to estimate econometrically with annual panel data the impact of globalization on income distribution within countries. The following countries are examined: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands,...

In the present paper, through an empirical analysis, the view of Corsini (2010) will be supported and will be further discussed that education is panacea. The sample covers all industrialised world. Data are taken from Eurostat. The elaboration of these panel data is made feasible by means of...

In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that as shadow economy declines then income distribution does not worsen. This paper supports the view of (Rosser et al., 2000; 2003). The sample covers most industrialized world. Data are taken from Eurostat and (Schneider et al., 2010);...