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Perceptions of ethno-cultural diversity and neighborhood cohesion in three European countries
Koopmans, Ruud - 2014
localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we explore a crucial individual-level mechanism: perceptions of diversity. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429801
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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428328
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Ethnic diversity, public goods provision and social cohesion : lessons from an inconclusive literature
Schaeffer, Merlin - 2013
Over the last two decades there has been a growing debate on the supposedly negative relation between ethnic diversity, public goods production and social cohesion. Despite the amount of evidence, existing in-depth qualitative reviews conclude that the literature is inconclusive. Advancing upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195349
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Shaking Dutch grounds won't shatter the European gas market
Holz, Franziska; Brauers, Hanna; Richter, Philipp M.; … - 2015
The Netherlands have been a pivotal supplier in Western European natural gas markets in the last decades. Recent … analyses show that the Netherlands would play an important role in replacing Russian supplies in Germany and France in case of … Russian export disruption (Richter & Holz, 2015). However, the Netherlands have suffered from regular earthquakes in recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382651
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Atypical employment in Europe 1996 - 2011
Allmendinger, Jutta; Hipp, Lena; Stuth, Stefan - 2013
To assess the influence of nonstandard employment for the labor market participation of different demographic groups, we provide detailed descriptions of the development of atypical employment in comparison to standard employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity between 1996 and 2011. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208432
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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA : a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer
Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999
In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428279
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M3 money demand and excess liquidity in the euro area
Dreger, Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
) estimation methods. To obtain the result, the short run homogeneity restriction between money and prices is relaxed. In addition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726115
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Hysteresis and persistence in the course of unemployment : the EU and US experience
Dreger, Christian (contributor);  … - 2006
We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by means of first and second generation panel unit root tests. While the former tests assume independent cross sections, the latter control for dependencies. The first generation tests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003304447
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On the role of stock market for real economic activity : evidence for Europe
Siliverstovs, Boriss (contributor);  … - 2006
, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and the UK. We find that even when accounting for expectations, represented by the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338244
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Common and spatial drivers in regional business cycles
Artis, Michael J.; Dreger, Christian; Cholodilin, … - 2009
We examine real business cycle convergence for 41 euro area regions and 48 US states. Results obtained by a panel model with spatial correlation indicate that the relevance of common business cycle factors is rather stable over the past two decades in the euro area and the US. Ongoing business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003807457