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Wage Differentials Across Sectors in Europe : An East-West Comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2021

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …

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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance : Evidence Form Four New EU Members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany

Elsner, Benjamin - 2013

We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...

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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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Expecting Brexit and UK Migration : Should I Go?

Di Iasio, Valentina; Wahba, Jackline - 2023

This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration to non-EU migration before and immediately after the UK referendum of June 2016. We also...

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The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe

Patrinos, Harry Anthony; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023

Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have on the skills premium and does accession to the European Union have an impact on the returns to education? The returns to education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition...

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The Effect on Foreign Direct Investment of Membership in the European Union

Bruno, Randolph - 2020

This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...

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The Brexit Referendum and Three Types of Regret

Drinkwater, Stephen J.; Jennings, Colin C. - 2022

In this paper we examine three forms of regret in relation to the UKâ s hugely significant referendum on EU membership that was held in June 2016. These are, (i) whether leave voters at the referendum subsequently regretted their choice (in the light of the result), (ii) whether non-voters...

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Scarring Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Italian Labour Market

Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic raised the share of inactive individuals in 2020 in Italy, mostly at the expense of permanent and … severely the ones living in large households in the North and Center of Italy. These findings find a rationale both in the …

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Learning at Home : Distance Learning Solutions and Child Development During the COVID-19 Lockdown

Champeaux, Hugues; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Marchetta, Francesca - 2022

May in France and Italy, we estimate child fixed effects models to analyze how the lockdown has affected children … boys, on kids attending kindergarten (in Italy) or secondary school (in France), and on children whose parents have a lower … methodologies, that has been much more common in Italy than in France, appears to significantly attenuate the negative impact on …

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