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Your next of kin or your own career? : caring and working among the 50+ of Europe

Bolin, Kristian; Lindgren, Björn; Lundborg, Per - 2007

outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …

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Comparitive performance analysis of European airports by means of extended data envelopment analysis

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– with a DFM and an FF component - will be applied to a comparative performance analysis of several major airports in Europe …

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Self-employment around retirement age

Hochgürtel, Stefan - 2010 - Second draft. July 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Modelling and estimating modal share in European transport

Russo, Giovanni; Reggiani, Aura; Nijkamp, Peter - 2001

International and interregional trade and transport are on the rise and hence, there is a clear needfor reliable estimates of transport flows. However, the available databases and estimation methodsare not yet satisfactory for analytical and predictive purposes.In this paper we explore the use...

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Model-based business cycle and financial cycle decomposition for Europe and the U.S.

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We develop a multivariate unobserved components model to extract business cycle and financial cycle indicators from a panel of economic and financial time series of four large developed economies. Our model is flexible and allows for the inclusion of cycle components in different selections of...

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Regional clusters of innovative activity in Europe : are social capital and geographical proximity the key determinants?

Dominicis, Laura de; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2011

Europe, ongoing globalization and increased interregional and international co-operation, location patterns of innovative … transmission for the production of innovative output in Europe. Several other variables are used to control for structural …

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Determinants of job satisfaction across the EU-15 : a comparison of self-employed and paid employees

Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Hessels, Jolanda; … - 2011 - Version: January 2011

Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

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The crisis sensitivity of European countries and regions : stylized facts and spatial heterogeneity

Groot, Stefan P. T.; Möhlmann, Jan L.; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of the recent global recession on European countries and regions. We first present several stylized facts as to the heterogeneous impact of the global recession on individual European countries and regions. We then offer an investigation of three main classes...

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