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Integration and Labour Markets in European Border regions

Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - 2004

Border regions are likely to play a critical role within the special dynamics initiated by the enlargement of the EU. This paper deals with the effects of integration on labour market conditions in border regions. Within the framework of different theoretical approaches the effects of...

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EU referenda in the Baltics: understanding the results at the regional level

Hazans, Mihails - 2004

The papers analyses regional differences in EU referenda results in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In each of the three countries, other things being equal, high income regions were significantly more pro-European than low-income ones, while regions with a high share of ethnic minorities were...

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Regional Learning Networks in Medium-Tech Technologies and European Integration

Cappellin, Riccardo; Orsenigo, Luigi - 2006

The paper aims at investigating the transfer of tacit knowledge both at the regional and at the interregional level and it focuses on the factors and forms of the processes of interactive learning between small and medium size in medium technology sectors. The analysis proceeds from the...

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European integration and inequality among countries: a lifecycle income analysis

Pastor, Jose M.; Serrano, Lorenzo - 2010

We analyze the effects of the expansions of the European Union on inequality over the period 1960-2005 using an approach based on individuals' lifecycle incomes. This allows us to estimate permanent incomes and consider the effect of both survival rates and different rates of economic growth....

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The EU Structural Funds as a Means to hamper Migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

Comparing the economic development and current situation of the internal markets of the U.S. and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably the Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging...

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Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

The enlargement of the European Union in 2004 caused a large migration wave from Central Europe to Ireland and the UK. This paper addresses the question whether such an emigration wave changes the wage distribution in the source country. In a theoretical model of a labor market I show that some...

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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments: A panel data analysis for the EU-28 member countries

Schmidt, Peter - 2016

This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...

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Quantifying Welfare Gains of Increased Trade Integration

Jung, Benjamin; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2018

Since the 1990s,Germany and other European countries have become more open to trade. The period is characterized by the fall of the iron curtain, the surge of China and its accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the introduction of the Euro, the creation of the Schengen area, the...

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Regional development based on clusters in agri-food sector: Case of association "Cluster Agro-Food-Ind Napoca"

Arion, Felix; Mureşan, Iulia - 2013

The paper has as main objective to observe the factors that encourage and/or restrict the development of clusters associative forms, especially on the agrifood sector. The study was focused on investigating the activity sector of an agrifood cluster in Cluj county, created as a complex swot...

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Economic regional and cross-border cooperation in the South-East Europe for the purpose of its faster integration in the European Union

Ibreljic, Izet; Kulenovic, Salih - 2004

the countries of the South-East Europe. Thus, it is necessary to intensify the regional cooperation between the countries … bilateral contracts on free trade. The cross-border cooperation programs should link up all assistance that would be, for this … economic-regional and cross-border cooperation in the South-East Europe in the context of its faster integration in the EU, as …

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