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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

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Off-shoring and productivity growth in the Italian manufacturing industries

Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - 2008

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry ("narrow … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way …

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How do migrants choose their destination country?: an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …

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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, … - 2009

This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...

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The structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States

Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Mündler, Marc-Andreas; … - 2006

selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …

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Zum Einfluß realer effektiver Wechselkurse auf die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit

Schumacher, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 61 (1992) 1/2, pp. 27-48

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Education and Intergenerational Mobility in Occupations

Checchi, Daniele - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 66 (1997) 1, pp. 136-144

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Zur langfristigen Entwicklung des intraindustriellen Handels mit Hochtechnologiegütern

Stolze, Frank; Trabold, Harald - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 66 (1997) 2, pp. 258-270

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International Trends in the Quantity and Quality of Entrants to Computer Science Courses in Higher Education

Bruniaux, Christine; Hansen, Kirstine; Steedman, Hilary; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 527-543

Informatik in fünf industrialisierten Ländern, den USA, Großbritannien, Frankreich, Singapur und Deutschland, auf die steigende … Deutschland war ein starker Anstieg an Studienanfängern seit 1995 in diesem Fach zu verzeichnen. In den USA zeigt sich dagegen ein …

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Early Career Experiences and Later Career Outcomes: Comparing the United States, France and Germany

Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique; Vilhuber, Lars - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 31-38

This paper explores the links between individuals' early career experiences and their labor market outcomes 5 to 20 years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we consider a large set of measures of men's early career...

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