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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments

Addison, John T. - 2019

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

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Labour market institutions and their effect on labour market performance in the new EU member countries

Fialová, Kamila; Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

European countries, with a special attention to the new European Union member countries. This may allow us to analyse effects …

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Voting in the European Union: Central Europe's lost voice

Schneider, Ondřej - 2008

Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004 - 2007. They constitute 20% of …

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Unemployment in the European Union: Institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2004

This paper presents a reappraisal of unemployment movements in the European Union. Our analysis is based on the chain …

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Has EMU had any impact on the degree of wage restraint?

Posen, Adam S.; Popov Gould, Daniel - 2006

We find in cross-sectional investigations that wage restraint is either unchanged or increased following EMU in the vast majority of countries. This contradicts the predictions of a widelycited family of models of labor market bargaining. In those, Germany would have been expected to display the...

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Has the EMU reduced wage growth and unemployment? Testing a model of trade union behaviour

Mikosch, Heiner; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2011

By using a model of trade union behaviour Grüner (2010) argues that the introduction of the European Monetary Union …

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Integrating with their feet: cross-border lending at the German-Austrian border

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Hainz, Christa - 2008

The financial integration in Europe concentrates on cross-border mergers rather than cross-border lending and emphasizes the need for harmonizing bank regulation and supervision. We study the impact of cross-border lending in a theoretical model where banks acquire either hard or soft...

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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change: An assessment for the European Union

Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010

Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...

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Inter-temporal savings, current account dynamics and asymmetric shocks in a heterogeneous European Monetary Union

Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - 2010

In the current debate on the reasons and implications of the Greek and Irish euro crisis, the intra-European current account imbalances have gained rising attention. Whereas Greece and Ireland struggle for austerity in private and public spending, Germany is urged to reduce its current account...

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Look who's talking : ECB communication during the first years of EMU

Jansen, David-Jan; de Haan, Jakob - 2004

and Monetary Union. We study whether statements by different (groups of) central bankers have been contradictory and …

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