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To keep load factors high while offering high frequency service, airlines tend to reduce the size of the aircraft they … congestion and delays are growing. Furthermore, demand for air transport is predicted to continue growing but aircraft size is … not. This paper aims to investigate and explain this phenomenon, the choice of relatively small aircraft. It seems that …
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This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because subsidiaries of multinational companies react more...
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age of 'regulated' short-haul aircraft by 2.8 years (14 percent), while the retirement age of 'unregulated' long …-haul aircraft increased by 2 years (11 percent). Accounting for the higher emissions of long-haul operations, the net environmental …
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Overseas Chinese communities are an important determinant in the location choice of greenfield investments made by mainland Chinese multinational enterprises across European regions. Conceptually embedded in a relational approach, this effect is shown through an empirical analysis of an...
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We examine the determinants of private equity returns using a newly constructed database of 7,500investments worldwide over forty years. The median investment IRR (PME) is 21% (1.3), gross offees. One in ten investments goes bankrupt, whereas one in four has an IRR above 50%. Only one ineight...
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outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …
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– with a DFM and an FF component - will be applied to a comparative performance analysis of several major airports in Europe …
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This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
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