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LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment …
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This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
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This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … the share of service-related jobs in total employment. Although converging in all European countries, a significant gap in … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …
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This paper focuses on nominal exchange rates, specifically the US dollar rate vis-à-vis the Euro and the Japanese Yen at a daily frequency. We model both absolute values of returns and squared returns using long-memory techniques, being particularly interested in volatility modelling and...
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Three current account imbalances - one very large deficit (the United States) and two surpluses (Japan and the Euro area) - are subjected to a minimalist structural interpretation. Though simple, this interpretation enables us to assess how much of each of the imbalances require a real exchange...
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