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Macedonia’s Accession to the EU and the Labor Market: What Can Be Learned from the New Member States?
Lehmann, Hartmut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The paper was produced as a background paper on labor issues for the UNDP study "Convergence to the European Union: Challenges and Opportunities." It first looks at the issue of how the labor market institutions of an acceding country like Macedonia should be shaped to further the integration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583489
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Can the University Save Europe?
Ritzen, Jo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556213
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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884389
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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national … higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884401
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Should Cash Transfers Be Confined to the Poor? Implications for Poverty and Inequality in Latin America
Acosta, Pablo A.; Leite, Phillippe; Rigolini, Jamele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is, "categorical" transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor within each population group (that is,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371860