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Human capital investment strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe … diversity and the other a unified Europe. Our results indicate that investments need to be directed more generally to people of … younger ages in Europe. If equality is important enough additional investment should specifically be directed to disadvantaged …

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A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data

Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high potential for comparative European labour market and social research. Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research...

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Unemployment and labor reallocation in Europe

Hogrefe, Jan; Sachs, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected European economies. Our measure of sectoral labor reallocation is adjusted for aggregate influences and the remaining variation is linked to unemployment in country specific...

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Housing and health

Angel, Stefan; Bittschi, Benjamin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Deprived housing conditions have long been recognized as a source of poor health. Nevertheless, there is scant empirical evidence of a causal relationship between housing and health. The literature identifies two different pathways by which housing deprivation affects health, namely,...

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Patent litigation in Europe

Cremers, Katrin; Ernicke, Max; Gaessler, Fabian; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions - Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK - covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...

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Cartel overcharges and the deterrent effect of EU competition law

Smuda, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper examines cartel overcharges for the European market. Using a sample of 191 overcharge estimates and several parametric and semi-parametric estimation procedures, the impact of different cartel characteristics and the market environment on the magnitude of overcharges is analyzed. The...

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Steady-state labor supply elasticities: A survey

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological …, both in the US and in Europe. …

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Which form of venture capital is most supportive of innovation?

Bertoni, Fabio; Tykvová, Tereza - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Although there seems to be consensus in the literature that venture capital investors increase the innovation output of their portfolio companies, there is little evidence about how investor type (governmental vs. private) and transaction structure (syndicated vs. non-syndicated) moderate this...

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Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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The threat of systemic risk in banking: evidence for Europe

Schüler, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …

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