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Labour disputes and the game of legal representation

Fraisse, Henri - 2010

This paper explores the prisoner's dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...

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

Addison, John T. - 2019

Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...

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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2019

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...

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One Size Does Not Fit All : TFP in the Aftermath of Financial Crises in Three European Countries

Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021

We analyse the impact of both the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the European sovereign and banking crisis of 2011-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both the Eurozone crisis and countries' institutional...

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Why Do Buyers Pay Different Prices for Comparable Products? Evidence from the Housing Market

Siebert, Ralph - 2020

We focus on the housing market and examine why nonlocal home buyers (NLBs) pay 15 percent more for houses than local home buyers (LBs). We estimate a housing demand model that returns heterogeneous willingness to pay parameters for housing attributes. Our results show that NLBs are willing to...

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Taxing Corporate Income

Auerbach, Alan J.; Devereux, Michael P.; Simpson, Helen - 2021

Following Meade (1978), we reconsider issues in the design of taxes on corporate income. We outline developments in economies and in economic thought over the last thirty years, and investigate how these developments should affect the design of taxes on corporate income. We consider a number of...

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Pension Systems (Un)Sustainability and Fiscal Constraints : A Comparative Analysis

Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael - 2023

Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic...

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Efficiency of European Universities : A Comparison of Peers

Herberholz, Lars - 2020

The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....

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Do China and Russia Undermine US Sanctions? Evidence from DiD and Event Study Estimation

Gutmann, Jerg; Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2022

panel difference-in-differences estimations and an event study design. Motivated by the claim that China and Russia … purposefully undermine US sanction efforts, we test whether target countries’ trade with China and Russia increases under US trade … countries. Trade of targets of US sanctions with China declines even more than trade with the US. These general patterns are …

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What actually happens to EU directives in the member states?: A cross-country cross-sector view on national transposition instruments

Treutlein, Daniela - 2007

This study empirically investigates the transposition patterns of EU directives in all 15 member states and in six major sectors of the economy with a view on analysing the political-economic reasons behind sector and national differences in the legal transposition instruments used. In...

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