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100	1		_aWOLLEGHEM Pierre Georges Van
245			_aDoes administrative capacity matter? _bthe absorption of the European Fund for the integration of migrants/ _cPierre Georges Van Wolleghem
260			_c2022
520			_aEmpirical evidence of the relationship between administrative capacity and the use of EU funds is plentiful. According to this strand in literature, the complexity of spending rules is key in explaining the implementation gap. What would happen should administrative requirements be relaxed? This paper looks into the implementation of the European Fund for the Integration of third country nationals (EIF), a fund with simpler spending rules and yet a higher rate of unused money. Adapting the hypotheses put forth in absorption literature to the specifics of the EIF, I confront capacity-based explanations to (under-explored) preference-based ones in a comparative fashion. Even when spending EU money is easier, strong support is found for capacity explanans and little for preferences. Even so, administrative capacity appears to be only one factor amongst many, with financial capacity and decentralization playing strong roles too. Empirical evidence is drawn from the application of time-series cross-section methods to an original dataset.
650			_aEUROPEAN FUNDS
650			_aIMPLEMENTATION
650			_aABSORPTION
650			_aEUROPEAN UNION
650			_aMIGRATION _xINTEGRATION
773			_aPolicy Studies : _gVol 43, No. 4, May-July 2022, pp.640-658
598			_aPOLICY, EU
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2020.1770209 _zClick here for full text
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