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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464502

How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states … enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU … shortages exceeds that of natives in the EU15, in particular in member states with higher unemployment rates, higher levels of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283156

What's in a second opinion? : shadowing the ECB and the Bank of England

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Siklos, Pierre L. - 2013

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What explains immigrant-native gaps in European labor markets : the role of institutions

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU LFS we first measure immigrant-native gaps in labor force participation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478963

Unemployment benefits and immigration : evidence from the EU

Giulietti, Corrado; Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; … - 2011

immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non-EU … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …

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The determinants of part-time work in EU countries : empirical investigations with macro-panel data

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two …

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Recent developments in part-time work in EU-15 countries : trends and policy

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

A growing part-time employment share has been a main feature of a number of industrialized countries over the past two decades. A considerable variation in the rate of part-time work is evident by gender, age group, industrial sector and occupation. The stylized facts support the view that...

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Part-time work in EU countries : labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2005

-time, over part-time employment, than in the US, with considerable variation across EU countries. …

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High skilled migration and the exertion of effort by the local population

Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...

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The Ill Wind that Blows from Europe : Implications for Canada's Economy

Siklos, Pierre L. - 2014

Speculation about the consequences of a break-up of the eurozone, a worsening sovereign debt crisis or a prolonged recession in the European Union have all in recent years made the headlines. At first glance, the effect that such events might have on the Canadian macroeconomy might appear small....

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