To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in education. There is evidence of sample selection bias in the case of young men, suggesting that they obey mor...

Foreword In this paper Philip Raines of the European Policies Research Centre of the University of Strathclyde sets out to trace the effects of European integration on European labour markets. Integration has taken the form of increased intra-regional trade and to some extent increased flows of foreign investment. It has not taken the form of flows of labour migration, which may if anything hav...

We consider a general equilibrium model a la Bhaskar (Review of Economic Studies 2002): there are complementarities across sectors, each of which comprise (many) heterogenous monopolistically competitive …rms. Bhaskar’s model is extended in two directions: production requires capital, and labour markets are segmented. Labour market segmentation models the di¢ culties of labour migrating across ...

We investigate the interaction between labour and credit market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment in the presence of profit sharing. Our analysis highlights the critical role of the outside option available of employees for the evaluation of the employment implications of intensified credit market competition. In a partial equilibrium with exogenous outside options increased bargaining...

We investigate the interaction between labour and credit market imperfections for equ ilibrium unemployment in the presence of profit sharing. Our analysis highlights the critical role of the outside option available of employees for the evaluation of the employment implications of intensified credit market competition. In a partial equilibrium with exogenous outside options increased bargainin...

This study investigates whether local economic conditions at entry into the labour market affect adult career outcomes. If the stage of the business cycle determines later outcomes, then there are long-term costs associated with entering the labour market in a recession. The focus is on the local unemployment rate (LUR) at entry at detailed regional level and its overall effects on earnings and...

While the labour market integration of immigrant youth has increasingly received attention in recent years, due to the lack of appropriate data comparative studies are scarce until now and theoretical reasons for persistence of ethnic disadvantages often remain unclear. In this paper we try to enhance the understanding of ethnic inequalities making use of a new dataset made available by Eurosta...

During the 21st century, migrations have become increasing-ly intense, since they are often planned with a specific goal and could cause major social changes. Unfortunately, there is no definition of term ?migrant?, countries face particular challenge in protecting migrant workers? right to work. The International Labour Organization, Council Europe, European Union made significant contribution...