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Tito Boeri

Tito Boeri

Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics, Bocconi University, Milan and Director of Fondazione Debenedetti.
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  • Saving Europe’s Lost Generation of Workers

    Tito Boeri Series: European Economies
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    2009-12-09
    The many post-mortems of the economic crisis that are now being written are misleading and dangerous, not only because the labor market has not yet recovered, but also because they contribute to complacency, thereby reducing pressure for reform. The crisis will be truly over only when new cohorts of workers are able to enter the labor market quickly and through the main door.... read
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  • The Immigration Game

    Tito Boeri Series: Human Rights
    2005-02-01
    Green Papers, as they are called in Europe, or White Papers, as they are known in America and Britain, are often mere rhetorical essays – government-backed studies that state broad principles unlikely ever to be applied in practice. The recent Green Paper released by the European Commission on international migration is no exception.... read
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  • Saving the Stability Pact from Itself

    Tito Boeri and Guido Tabellini Series: European Economies
    2004-09-23
    At their meeting in Scheveningen, the Netherlands, the EU's economic ministers (Ecofin) once again confronted the need to reform the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). The issues surrounding reform remain controversial and unsettled, but this time, the ministers laid their cards on the table.... read
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  • High Fences Make Bad Neighbors in Europe

    Tito Boeri Series: European Economies
    2004-03-02
    Good fences make good neighbors, so the poet Robert Frost wrote. Sadly, the European Union seems to be taking Frost's poetic whimsy as a serious policy prescription.... read
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  • Down with Euro-Paternalism

    Fabrizio Coricelli and Tito Boeri Series: European Economies
    2003-10-13
    Italy's presidency of the European Union bears an enormous responsibility, namely reinvigorating enlargement as the key aspect of the new EU. A good place to start would be to push for a different attitude on accession countries' adoption of the Euro. Indeed, EU institutions' current paternalistic stance towards the accession countries threatens to create a two-tier Europe that will complicate the task of integration. ... read
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