Title:Wage assimilation : migrants versus natives and foreign migrants versus internal migrants
Author(s):STRØM, Steinar; VENTURINI, Alessandra; VILLOSIO, ClaudiaDate:2013Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The paper wants to understand the assimilation pattern of foreign migrants in Italy. Three novelties characterize this study. First, the research compares the wage assimilation of international migrants with both internal ...
Title:Wages and the Size of Firms in Dynamic Matching Models
Author(s):BERTOLA, Giuseppe; GARIBALDI, P.Date:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper studies the joint distribution of wages and employment levels in simple matching models of job creation and destruction with costly search and firm-specific labor demand shocks. Existing evidence on the relationship ...
Title:Walking the Tightrope: Edward Heath's Vision of Europe and Anglo-American Relations
Author(s):ROSSBACH, Niklas HelmerDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This is a study of the consequences for the Anglo-American special relationship of Heath’s attempt to place Britain at the centre of the EC. British accession to the EC is widely regarded as the chief accomplishment of the ...
Title:War by Contract: Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, and Private Contractors
Author(s):FRANCIONI, Francesco; RONZITTI, NatalinoDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Provides a comprehensive analysis of the application of human rights and international humanitarian law to the work of private military and security companies
Addresses questions of a highly topical nature, such as the ...
Title:War by Images: From Kosovo to Afghanistan
Author(s):DE FRANCO, ChiaraDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the most classical way and a less than original strategy in International Relations, this research is about power, the sources of power, and power relations. However, the unit of analysis is all but classical; on the ...
Title:War Contexts: The Criminal Responsibility of Private Security Personnel
Author(s):QUIRICO, OttavioDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI AELAbstract:This paper explores the criminal accountability of Private Security Company (PSC) personnel in war contexts. It focuses on the legal position of PSC personnel, defined on the basis of the relationship linking PSCs to the ...
Title:The ‘War on Terror’ and the United Kingdom’s Constitution
Author(s):ELLIOTT, MarkDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:That its “unwritten” nature makes the United Kingdom’s constitution extremely flexible is a truism if not a cliché. It is, nevertheless, a phenomenon that has never been more clearly evident than in the last ten years. No ...
Title:War Remembrance in the Republic of Moldova: Commemoration, state-formation and belonging
Author(s):POPA, GabrielaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis examines the practices and spaces of Second World War commemorations following the fall of the Soviet Union. Drawing on the case of the Republic of Moldova, it addresses two dimensions of the topic: the temporal ...