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Pandiella, Alberto González - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

ready. The Irish economy is shifting away from bricks and mortar towards knowledge-based services, and those previously …

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Entrepreneurship from Scratch: Lessons on the Entry Decision into Self-Employment from Transition Economies

Earle, John S.; Sakova, Zuzana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard to earnings, employment and occupational attainment. However, much less attention has been paid to the question of whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided...

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The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Duffy, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are...

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Knowledge and Structure

Fioretti, Guido - EconWPA - 2002

This article presents a formalization of knowledge based on a connectionist model of a firm's structure. Transaction … costs are not ignored, but integrated with the knowledge-based approach. A numerical example on the canonical comparison of …

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Exporthandbuch Windenergie 2003/04 : die europäischen Märkte im Vergleich

2004

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Exporthandbuch Photovoltaik 2003/04 : die europäischen Märkte im Vergleich

2003 - 1. Aufl., Nov. 2003

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Policy Options to Durably Resolve Euro Area Imbalances

Guillemette, Yvan; Turner, David - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

net external debt levels. In Spain and Portugal, cost competitiveness relative to the rest of the euro area would need to … structurels à des balances compatibles avec des niveaux durables de dette extérieure nette. L’Espagne et le Portugal …

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Economic Uncertainties and their Impact on Activity in Greece compared with Ireland and Portugal

Schneider, Jan-David; Giorno, Claude - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014

presents a brief empirical analysis quantifying this phenomenon and compares it with developments in Ireland and Portugal …, although stronger than in Ireland or Portugal. This quantification appears to be robust to various specification changes of the …'Irlande et le Portugal<BR>Les incertitudes auxquelles sont confrontés les ménages et les entreprises affectent l …

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The Iberian Tigers versus The Celtic Tiger: Economic Growth Paths in an Economic History Perspective

Sequeira, Tiago Neves - EconWPA - 2003

The years following the Second World War were those of the greatest economic growth that Europe had ever seen. If the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, neutral in the conflict and ruled by dictatorial regimes, enjoyed that growth and had participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland,...

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