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Health status and the allocation of time : cross-country evidence from Europe
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2014
This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...
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Are Foreign-Owned Firms Different? Comparison of Employment Volatility and Elasticity of Labour Demand
Meriküll, Jaanika - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051164
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Europäische Raumfahrtpolitik: Fortschrittsbericht ; Arbeitsdokument der Kommission
2008
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821909
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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?
Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005
This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158652
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The obesity epidemic in Europe
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna (contributor) - 2005
This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...
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The effectiveness of European active labor market policy
Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006
Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330264
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483
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The wage effects of social norms : evidence of deviations from peers' body-mass in Europe
Fahr, René (contributor) - 2006
"We investigate wage effects of deviations from peer group body mass index (BMI) to evaluate the influence of social norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity effects associated with deviations from a clinically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375235