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Martin Kahanec (DPP) invited panelist at EC's expert conference on Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review 2011

February 10, 2012
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Martin Kahanec (DPP) commented on chapter 6 "Intra-EU mobility and the impact of enlargement" at an expert conference on Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review 2011 organized by the Eruopean Commission, DG EMPL, February 9, 2012, Brussels.

In a panel on the experience with free labor mobility in an enlarged EU, Martin Kahanec discussed the contribution of Laurent Aujean and Guy Lejeune (both DG EMPL) who authored chapter 6 "Intra-EU mobility and the impact of enlargement" of the Employment and Social Developments in Europe Review 2011 report. 

Spanish National Research Council's José Fernández-Albertos gave a talk at PERG/DPP joint lecture

February 10, 2012

On Monday 30 January, PERG and DPP organized a joint lecture, inviting José Fernández-Albertos from the Institute for Public Goods and Policies of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) to give a talk on how the crisis influenced policy preferences in Spain and who voters blame according to their political preferences. The paper was discussed by Anil Duman from the Department of Political Science. The discussion mainly focused on how partisan bias and framings of the crisis as being related to globalization condition the attribution of blame for the crisis.

The costs of war with Iran would rest with the bottom billion, not the West, writes DPP's Andreas Goldthau

February 9, 2012

In his recent comment in European Voice, Andreas Goldthau argues that an attack on Iran has overlooked consequences. Those who would suffer most from an oil price spike are the bottom billion, not the West.

Read the article here.

DPP faculty members publish paper on the political economy of EU structural-funds policy

February 8, 2012
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DPP faculty members Thilo Bodenstein and Achim Kemmerling publish paper on the political economy of EU structural-funds policy.

Read their study by visiting the EIoP website

 

 

 

EC: The "Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants" with Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) as a lead author out now

February 6, 2012
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The Final Report of the "Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants" resulting from an 18-month project funded by the European Commission has been published by the EC. The Study was prepared by a team of researchers from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Bonn and Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) Dublin coordinated by Martin Kahanec (Public Policy).