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Making sense of Bolkestein-bashing: trade liberalization under segmented labor markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2005

Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called Bolkestein directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods that...

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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

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 role of association agreements within European Union enlargement to Central and Eastern European countries

Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert; Sova, Anamaria - 2007

The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...

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Welfare and employment: a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - 2008

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

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Emigration and wages: The EU enlargement experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to …

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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Trends in economic research: an international perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009

We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...

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Decentralization, happiness and the perception of institutions

Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2011

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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