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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election

Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

skills and experience. Women working PT in the other EU countries have similar problems to the UK but the UK has the highest …

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Are European Labor Markets As Awful As All That?

Freeman, Richard - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

seriously amiss with EU labor markets. The theme of this piece issimple. Compared to an ideal competitive market, EU labor … markets fall seriously short, butcompared to labor markets in the US and to other markets in advanced capitalist countries,EU … labor markets do not live up to their awful press. The variety of labor market institutionsamong EU countries, moreover …

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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...

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Budgeting versus implementing fiscal policy in the EU

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo; Wierts, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

implementation in the EU are determined. We find that (1) implemented budgetary adjustment falls systematically short of planned …

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Regional Policy Design: An Analysis of Relocation, Efficiency and Equity

Ulltveit-Moe, Karen-Helene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

of EU regional initiative. …

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Protocol Design and (De-)Centralization

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Should privately informed agents with diverging interests act independently or should they commit to a mechanism? This paper analyzes different communication and decision protocols when communication involves delay. It studies under which conditions agents should (i) choose their actions...

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Europe's Single Market: The Long March to 1992

Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The paper analyses the degree of structural change that has occurred within the EC since the launch of the internal market programme. It is divided into three parts: the first examines inter-sectoral shifts in the pattern of specialization within EC manufacturing, and finds relatively little...

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Is a European Hard Core Credible? A Statistical Analysis

Jacquemin, Alexis; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The paper analyses the proposal to create a hard core of EU countries committed to deeper and faster integration by … the whole EU, Japan and the United States. The second uses principal component and cluster analyses to investigate whether … these five countries represent a homogenous grouping vis-à-vis the other EU members. …

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Immigration and the UK Labour Market

Metcalf, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

David Metcalf, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), outlines recent changes in the regulatory framework for immigrant workers.

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