Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labour Market Adjustment? Theory and an Application to the EU Enlargement
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- Lamo, Ana & Messina, Julián & Wasmer, Etienne, 2006. "Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment? Theory and an application to the EU enlargement," Working Paper Series 585, European Central Bank.
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- Ana Lamo & Julian Messina & Etienne Wasmer, 2007. "Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment? Theory and an Application to the EU Enlargement," CSEF Working Papers 172, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy.
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enlargement; labour reallocation; matching; specific skills; unemployment; vocational education;JEL classification:
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2006-02-19 (All new papers)
- NEP-BEC-2006-02-19 (Business Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2006-02-19 (Education)
- NEP-HRM-2006-02-19 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2006-02-19 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-TRA-2006-02-19 (Transition Economics)
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