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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D’Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...

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Why do Europeans work part-time? A cross-country panel analysis.

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward-Warmedinger, … - 2008

consistent with firms utilising part-time work to adjust their labour force to changing economic conditions. Institutions and …

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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan

Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008

This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data …-setting institutions. …

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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

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