states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets … affected by asymmetric economic shocks. Using a new migration dataset and treating the EU enlargement and labor market openings …

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in … countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms in the aftermath of the 2008/09 crisis to tackle a number of issues …, including labor market segmentation. This particularly concerns reforms in: (1) employment protection, i.e. dismissal protection …

, although five general patterns emerge:a) In both periods, income events and especially changes in head's labor earnings seem to … a poverty spell than unemployment events for starting a poverty spell; c) The importance of second income earners …

principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and … training systems. To tackle the Keynesian and neoclassical components of unemployment, instead, it is vital to rethink the … European austerity and reduce the labor wedge …

This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided … in higher education. We show that, with current labor market characteristics, the target set by governments seems …

-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU LFS we first measure immigrant-native gaps in labor force participation …, unemployment, low-skilled employment and temporary employment. We distinguish the gaps that can be explained by immigrant …

A Single European Labor Market, particularly involving the free movement of workers within Europe, has been a goal of … first established, a Single European Labor Market has not yet been achieved. This paper gives an overview of current … to labor mobility. Complementarily, it analyzes the results of a unique opinion survey among labor market experts, as …

employment and high and persistent unemployment which can be explained by labor market institutions that inhibit labor market …Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low … adaptability. This paper analyzes recent reforms in core areas such as active and passive labor market policies, employment …