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We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …
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Auf Grundlage der Statistik der Europäischen Union über Einkommen und Lebensbedingungen wird in diesem Papier die …
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of employment contract, and on crosscountry differences. Our analysis shows that specific worker groups, such as men and … young persons, were particularly strongly hit by the crisis. Furthermore, more transitions from employment, and especially … temporary employment, to unemployment were the main factor behind the rise in unemployment; while reduced unemployment outflows …
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Two of the four macroeconomic adjustment programmes, Portugal and Ireland’s, can be considered a success in the sense that the initial expectations in terms of adjustment, both fiscal and external, were broadly fulfilled. A rebound based on exports has taken hold in these two countries, but a...
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Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the job search methods of the unemployed in Europe. The analysis focuses on the importance of individual and household characteristics in this context, as well as on cross-country differences in Europe. Our findings suggest that both...
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The theme of this contribution is how Europe will evolve over the next decade. The key message is that over this decade Europe will be busy digesting the 12 members that joined in 2004 and 2007. Digesting in the context means that the new members will only gradually be incorporated and...
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We analyze the benefits and costs of a non-euro country opting-in to the banking union. The decision to opt-in depends on the comparison between the assessment of the banking union attractiveness and the robustness of a national safety net. The benefits of opting-in are still only potential and...
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The asset purchase programme of the euro area, active between 2015 and 2018, constitutes an interesting special case of Quantitative Easing (QE) because the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) involved the purchase of peripheral euro area government bonds, which were clearly not...
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This paper assesses the economic implications of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union. The basic data on trade in goods and services and investment between the two parties suggest that cost of ‘Brexit’ could be substantial. Trade between the UK and the EU27 is large and of a similar...
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followed by an upward wage transition. As opposed to composition effects, labour-market institutions, especially employment …
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