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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans

Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019

For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...

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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments Across Europe : 1988-2010

Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...

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Economic Growth and Political Integration : Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method

Campos, Nauro - 2014

This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity would have behaved for the countries that joined the European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995...

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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries

Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Anamaria - 2021

The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU-15) and the Central and Eastern European countries...

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The Distribution of Well-Being Among Europeans

Brandolini, Andrea - 2019

We analyse the evolution of EU citizens' living standards, considering the EU as a single country. Average living standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic...

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Crossing Borders : Labor Market Effects of European Integration

Illing, Hannah - 2023

This paper studies the labor market effects of out- and in-migration in the context of cross-border commuting. It investigates an EU policy reform that granted Czech citizens full access to the German labor market, resulting in a Czech commuter outflow across the border to Germany. Exploiting...

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia - 2014

disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there is no exchange-rate mechanism available to play this role. We shed some … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe.Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is …

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006–2016

Jauer, Julia - 2018

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …

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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market : First Results from the Euro Experiment

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …

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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread … representative household microdata from 11 Eurozone countries to simulate these policy reforms and to study their effects on the … that not all forms of fiscal integration will improve macroeconomic stability in the Eurozone …

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