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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes

Piopiunik, Marc - 2012

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

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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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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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Crossing Borders : Labor Market Effects of European Integration

Illing, Hannah - 2023

outflow across the border to Germany. Exploiting the fact that the reform specifically impacted the Czech and German border …

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Structural Reform in Germany

Krebs, Tom - 2016

proposals for Germany: i) a reduction in the social security tax in the low-wage sector, ii) a publicly financed expansion of … deregulation reform are relatively small due to the small size of the professional services in Germany.Policy reforms i) and ii …

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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Merz, Joachim - 2006

If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...

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Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022

security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and … are strikingly similar across countries: increasing labour market concentration by 10% reduces wages by 0.19% in Germany … Germany and 2.34% in Portugal. While not affecting this probability in Italy and Spain, labour market concentration …

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