Title:Return Migration and the Survival of Entrepreneurial Activities in Egypt
Author(s):MARCHETTA, FrancescaDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address ...
Title:Rewarding Migration to Strengthen the Link between International Migration and Development
Author(s):CASSARINO, Jean-PierreDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Since the mid ‘80s, there has been growing consensus among scholars and policy-makers that international migration could contribute to the social and economic development of sending countries. Although the issue of migration ...
Title:Riflessioni sulla sentenza "Baheten Metock e altri"
Author(s):IANNIELLO SALICETI, AlessandroDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This essay conducts an accurate analysis on the "Metock" case and on other recent leading-cases related to residence rights of non-EU nationals married to EU citizens. This essay was written before the EC Court of Justice ...
Title:Robert Schuman on Hungary and Europe
Author(s):AVERY, GrahamDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Robert Schuman (1886–1963), French statesman and ‘founding father’ of European integration, once declared: Nous devons faire l’Europe non seulement dans l’intérêt des pays libres, mais aussi pour pouvoir y accueillir les ...
Title:Robust MACCs? The topography of abatement by fuel switching in the European power sector
Author(s):DELARUE, Erik; ELLERMAN, A. Denny; D'HAESELEER, WilliamDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[Loyola de Palacio Energy Policy Programme]Abstract:This paper employs a simulation model of the European power sector to analyse the abatement response to a CO2 price through fuel switching, one of principal means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in any economy. Abatement ...
Title:The role of majority attitudes towards out-group in the perception of the acculturation strategies of immigrants
Author(s):KOSIC, Ankica; MANNETTI, Lucia; SAM, David LacklandDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The aim of this study was to examine host group members towards immigrants acculturation strategy preferences and the relationship between these attitudes and the level of prejudice towards immigrants. A questionnaire ...
Title:Rolling Back the Public Sector: Differential Effects on Employment, Investment, and Growth
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The macroeconomic effects of different ways of rolling back the welfare state are analysed. Cutting public spending on market goods induces a lower interest rate, a higher wage, a lower capital stock, and a fall in employment. ...
Title:Safeguards in the World Trade Organization Ten Years After a Dissociated State of the Law?
Author(s):MARTÍN RODRÍGUEZ, Pablo J.Date:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article examines the contradictory functioning of the World Trade Organization Agreement on Safeguards during the first ten years of application On the one hand it shows that by using a literal Interpretive shift and ...
Title:Search and Rescue Operations in the Mediterranean: Factor of Cooperation or Conflict?
Author(s):TREVISANUT, SelineDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article analyses the practice of Mediterranean States with regard to search and rescue (SAR) operations that has repeatedly given rise to much dispute. Its particular focus is on the existing disagreements concerning ...
Title:Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European political Swings: an Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time
Author(s):HIX, Simon; MARSH, MichaelDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the second-order model. We pool all the elections in a single evaluation ...
Title:The Second-Order Election Model Revisited: An experimental test of vote choices in European Parliament elections
Author(s):HOBOLT, Sara Binzer; WITTROCK, JillDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:This paper examines the micro-foundations of the second-order elections model of European Parliament (EP) elections. We extend the existing literature in several ways. First, we propose an individual-level model of voting ...