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Unholy compromise in the Eurozone and how to mend it

Micossi, Stefano - WWWforEurope - 2012

This paper reviews the causes of the ongoing crisis in the eurozone and the policies needed to restore stability in financial markets and reassure a bewildered public. Its main message is that the EU will not overcome the crisis until it has a comprehensive and convincing set of policies in place;...

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Academic careers: a cross-country perspective

Janger, Jürgen; Strauss, Anna; Campbell, David - WWWforEurope - 2013

Asymmetric international mobility of highly talented scientists is well documented. We try contributing to the explanation of this phenomenon, looking at the “competitiveness” of higher education systems in terms of being able to attract talented scientists in their field. We characterise...

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Surveillance and Control of Fiscal Consolidation on a Supranational Level

Aarle, Bas van - WWWforEurope - 2013

Strengthening budgetary surveillance and coordination of budgetary policy measures in the EU is of vital importance for economic stability and growth. The decentralised decision making structure in most areas of budgetary policies, requires the need to balance national and common objectives;...

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Negative Shocks, Job Creation, and Selection

Kopasker, Daniel; Görg, Holger; Molana, Hassan; … - WWWforEurope - 2013

High inter-country variability characterises the responsiveness of both output to (exogenous) shocks and employment to output contractions. We argue that intercountry differences in firm-size distributions contribute to explaining this variability. Within an open economy model, we show that...

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Labour Market Institutions and Regional Unemployment Disparities

Huber, Peter - WWWforEurope - 2013

We conduct a theoretically based, empirical analysis of the impact of national wage bargaining, labour market and housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU...

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Literature review on fundamental concepts and definitions, objectives and policy goals as well as instruments relevant for socio-ecological transition

Dimitrova, Anna; Hollan, Katarina; Laster, Daphne; … - WWWforEurope - 2013

The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a … – fundamental precondition for this. In short, the overarching question the WWWforEurope project attempts to answer is what kind of … and starting point of the WWWforEurope project. The necessity to accomplish a socio-ecological transition represents the …

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On the Determinants of Global Bilateral Migration Flows

Cuaresma, Jesus Crespo; Moser, Mathias; Raggl, Anna - WWWforEurope - 2013

We present a method aimed at estimating global bilateral migration flows and assessing their determinants. We employ that fact that available net migration figures for a country are (nonlinear) aggregates of migration flows from and to all other countries of the world in order to construct a...

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Determining the Impact of Cultural Diversity on Regional Economies in Europe

Dohse, Dirk; Gold, Robert - WWWforEurope - 2014

In recent decades, the ethnic composition of the European population has changed substantially, leading to a rapid increase of cultural diversity in the EU as a whole, at the level of individual member states, and at the regional level. This paper focusses on the regional level and investigates...

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Two-Country Dynamic Model of Trade with Heterogeneous Firms and Comparative Advantage

Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Mileva, Mariya - WWWforEurope - 2013

We develop a dynamic trade model with comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms and workers and endogenous firm entry to study wage inequality during the adjustment to trade liberalization. We find that trade liberalization increases wage inequality both in the short run and in the long run. In...

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(Spillover) Effects of Labour Market Reforms in Germany and France

Busl, Claudia; Seymen, Atilim - WWWforEurope - 2013

In this paper we analyze the (potential) effects of labour market and fiscal policy reforms by heterogeneous European countries—Germany and France—on the domestic and foreign economy. We test the implications of the gains in matching efficiency and reduced unemployment benefits induced by...

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