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Migration, Education and Employment : Pathways to Successful Integration
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ISBN: 3031419197 3031419170 9783031419195 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This is an open access book which focuses on different aspects of education, employment, and successful integration of migrants in three countries: Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. The chapters in this book reflect on these issues from micro, meso and macro perspectives; some are based on interviews with migrants and people who work with them, others on documents and literature about migration. There are different pathways for skilled migrants to vocations. Some start working in their previous vocations after arriving in the new environment. Some re-enter their professions but on a lower level. Some can re-train themselves in a new vocation, and some will go to further education, as studies in different chapters of this book suggest. Common for successful integration seems to be several intertwined factors: the target language competence, strong motivation and agency, supporting networks and supporting persons, as well as structural opportunities of the new environment. The book’s editorial board takes an eclectic view, hoping to start an academic debate about what ‘successful integration’ means. While discussions about the integration of migrants tend to focus on integration failures, there are millions of migrants, in different countries, who have successfully integrated into their new societies.


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Europe's Orphan : The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt - New Edition
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Originally conceived as part of a unifying vision for Europe, the euro is now viewed as a millstone around the neck of a continent crippled by vast debts, sluggish economies, and growing populist dissent. In Europe's Orphan, leading economic commentator Martin Sandbu presents a compelling defense of the euro. He argues that rather than blaming the euro for the political and economic failures in Europe since the global financial crisis, the responsibility lies firmly on the authorities of the eurozone and its member countries. The eurozone's self-inflicted financial calamities and economic decline resulted from a toxic cocktail of unforced policy errors by bankers, politicians, and bureaucrats; the unhealthy coziness between finance and governments; and, above all, an extreme unwillingness to restructure debt.Sandbu traces the origins of monetary union back to the desire for greater European unity after the Second World War. But the euro's creation coincided with a credit bubble that governments chose not to rein in. Once the crisis hit, a battle of both ideas and interests led to the failure to aggressively restructure sovereign and bank debt. Ideologically informed choices set in motion dynamics that encouraged more economic mistakes and heightened political tensions within the eurozone. Sandbu concludes that the prevailing view that monetary union can only work with fiscal and political union is wrong and dangerous-and risks sending the continent into further political paralysis and economic stagnation.Contending that the euro has been wrongfully scapegoated for the eurozone's troubles, Europe's Orphan charts what actually must be done for the continent to achieve an economic and political recovery.This revised edition contains a new preface addressing the economic and political implications of Brexit, as well as updated text throughout. Europe's Orphan charts what actually must be done for the continent to achieve a full recovery.

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Debt relief --- Financial crises --- Eurozone. --- Euro. --- Monetary policy --- Money --- 2000-2099 --- Europe --- European Union countries --- Economic conditions --- Economic policy. --- Berlin. --- Brexit. --- Britain. --- Dublin. --- EU. --- Europe. --- European Financial Stability Facility. --- European economies. --- European economy. --- European nation states. --- European policymaking. --- European unity. --- German money. --- Germany. --- Greece. --- International Monetary Fund. --- Ireland. --- Irish banks. --- Irish economic policy. --- United Kingdom. --- account deficits. --- aggregate demand management. --- balance-of-payments crises. --- bank debt. --- collective fiscal stance. --- countercyclical fiscal policies. --- currency union. --- debt writedowns. --- debt. --- economic challenges. --- economic decline. --- economic suffering. --- euro. --- eurozone countries. --- eurozone economy. --- eurozone policymakers. --- eurozone. --- exchange rates. --- financial aid. --- financial fragmentation. --- financial markets. --- financial transfers. --- global financial crisis. --- individual currencies. --- investments. --- labour. --- monetary union. --- mutualised debt issuance. --- national autonomy. --- national governments. --- policy. --- political ill will. --- productivity. --- recession. --- rescue fund. --- restructuring. --- single currency. --- single interest rate. --- sovereign debt crisis. --- sovereign debt restructuring. --- sovereign debt. --- sovereign restructuring. --- trade. --- uncertainty. --- unity.


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The European guilds : an economic analysis
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ISBN: 0691185107 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations. Did the benefits of guilds outweigh their costs? Analyzing thousands of guilds that dominated European economies from 1000 to 1880, The European Guilds uses vivid examples and clear economic reasoning to answer that question.Sheilagh Ogilvie's book features the voices of honorable guild masters, underpaid journeymen, exploited apprentices, shady officials, and outraged customers, and follows the stories of the "vile encroachers"-women, migrants, Jews, gypsies, bastards, and many others-desperate to work but hunted down by the guilds as illicit competitors. She investigates the benefits of guilds but also shines a light on their dark side. Guilds sometimes provided important services, but they also manipulated markets to profit their members. They regulated quality but prevented poor consumers from buying goods cheaply. They fostered work skills but denied apprenticeships to outsiders. They transmitted useful techniques but blocked innovations that posed a threat. Guilds existed widely not because they corrected market failures or served the common good but because they benefited two powerful groups-guild members and political elites.Exploring guilds' inner workings across eight centuries, The European Guilds shows how privileged institutions and exclusive networks shape the wider economy-for good or ill.


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Pour une compétitivité européenne
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ISSN: 07772823 ISBN: 2804126749 9782804126742 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bruxelles De Boeck

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327 --- Competition --- -Competition, International --- concurrence --- politique economique --- ume --- ce --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- 334.151.1 --- 331.31 --- 380.23 --- 04.07.ZZD --- International competition --- World economics --- 327 Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Buitenlandse politiek. Internationale betrekkingen. Internationale politiek. Wereldpolitiek --- Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Buitenlandse politiek. Internationale betrekkingen. Internationale politiek. Wereldpolitiek --- Competition (Economics) --- Competitiveness (Economics) --- Economic competition --- concurrentie --- economisch beleid --- emu --- eg --- EG : economisch en monetair beleid. --- Economisch beleid. --- Vorming van internationale prijzen. Internationale gelijkheden en verschillen. Concurrentievermogen. --- Verzekeringsbedrijf Staatstoezicht Meerdere landen --- Economic aspects --- European Union countries --- -European Union countries --- -EU countries --- Euroland --- Economic integration --- Economic policy --- Competition, International. --- Concurrence internationale --- Concurrence --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Economic policy. --- Economic integration. --- Politique économique --- Intégration économique --- European Economy --- Trade theory --- #SBIB:327.7H231 --- Conglomerate corporations --- Covenants not to compete --- Monopolies --- Open price system --- Europese Unie: sociaal-economisch beleid, landbouw-, milieu-, cultuur- en communicatiebeleid --- Verzekeringsbedrijf ; Staatstoezicht ; Meerdere landen --- -Economic integration --- Competition, International --- International relations --- International trade --- War --- Economisch beleid --- EG : economisch en monetair beleid --- Vorming van internationale prijzen. Internationale gelijkheden en verschillen. Concurrentievermogen --- International economic relations --- Commercial policy --- Concurrence internationale. --- Compétitivité (économie politique) --- Politique économique --- Competition - European Union countries --- European Union countries - Economic policy --- European Union countries - Economic integration

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