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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten
Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...
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Employment Impacts of EU Biofuels Policy: Combining Bottom-up Technology Information and Sectoral Market Simulations in an Input-output Framework
Mongelli, Ignazio; Löschel, Andreas; Neuwahl, Frederik; … - 2008
This paper analyses the employment consequences of policies aimed to support biofuels in the European Union. The … thereby increase security of the European energy supply on the other hand. The employment impacts of increasing biofuels … recent Renewable Energy Roadmap. Employment effects are assessed in an input-output framework taking into account bottom …
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
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An analysis of youth unemployment in the euro area
Gomez-Salvador, Ramon; Leiner-Killinger, Nadine - 2008
worsens. Moreover, robust results across the regression scenarios show that higher employment protection and minimum wages … indicate that the increasing share of services employment in total employment is helping to reduce unemployment among young …
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Der Mindestlohn im Dachdeckerhandwerk: Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitnehmerschutz und Wettbewerb
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Rammer, … - 2012
Der seit 1997 im Dachdeckerhandwerk eingeführte und seit 2003 bundeseinheitlich geregelte, allgemeinverbindliche Mindestlohn führt vor allem in Ostdeutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich zu einer starken Betroffenheit der Branche vom Mindestlohn. Die damit einhergehende effektive...
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Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation
Peri, Giovanni - 2003
Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carriers of important learning spillovers. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to analyze knowledge flows across 147 subnational regions. We estimate that only 15% of average knowledge is learned outside the average...
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Incentive Problems in Banking Supervision: The European Case
Schüler, Martin - 2003
This paper discusses the incentive conflicts that arise in banking supervision in the EU in a principal-agent framework, where the regulator is the agent and the taxpayers is the principal. The regulatory agent in addition to maintaining financial stability (the objective of the principal) may...
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Unabhängigkeit und Verantwortlichkeit der Europäischen Zentralbank
Ullrich, Katrin - 2003
Dieser Artikel gibt einen Literaturüberblick über die Kon- zepte von Unabhängigkeit und Verantwortlichkeit einer Zentralbank, wie sie aus ökonomischer Sicht wahrgenommen werden. Unabhängigkeit wird in dieser Literatur als eine Möglichkeit angesehen, um das Ziel einer niedrigen und stabilen...
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Efficiency, Compensation, and Discrimination: What is at Stake When Implementing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?
Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2003
In 2005, an EU-wide emissions trading scheme covering major CO2 producing sites shall come into power. The key objective of the trading scheme is to promote cost-efficiency of carbon reduction within the EU. We identify policy-relevant tradeoffs between overall efficiency, compensation and...
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Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender Wage Gaps in the EU
Heinze, Anja; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam; Laisney, … - 2003
We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom), focusing on self-selection into market work. Results show that selectivity correction has an impact on both wage estimates and wage gap decomposition. If...
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