Recently, the European Commission has proposed to introduce a new migration policy instrument - Blue Cards - to attract highly skilled workers from abroad by lifting labour market restrictions, offering financial and housing benefits. The excludability character of human capital suggests that...

Economic theory, as well as empirical findings, suggest that the way in which agricultural support is provided has an influence on land markets, because payments capitalise to some degree into land values, affecting both the sale and rental price of land. The present paper analyses how the...

Drawing on a unique farm level panel data set with 37,409 observations for period 2004–2005 and employing a matching estimator, this paper analyses how farm access to credit affects farm input allocation and farm efficiency in the CEE transition countries. We find that farms are asymmetrically...

This synthesis report focuses on the evolution of agricultural market and tradepolicies in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) candidate countries in theperiod 1997 to 2001. The developments were crucially influenced by (OECD,2000a):• the situation in world agricultural markets;• the...