The role of borders, languages, and currencies as obstacles to labor market integration

European Economic Review

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1148-1163

  Bartz, Kevin ^c   Fuchs Schündeln, Nicola ^a,b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c Renaissance Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

European integration; Labor market integration; Spatiotemporal autoregressive model

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY; ECONOMIC INTEGRATION; EUROPEAN UNION; LABOR MARKET; LANGUAGE; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862764021     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2012.05.008     Document Type: Article

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