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of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …
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With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP …
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We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...
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-country health comparison ; vignettes ; subjective and objective measures …
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This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
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In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...
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The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular American state, Ohio, and use the methodology of Pallage, Scruggs and Zimmermann (2008) to find a...
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
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In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the … impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … potential endogeneity problems. It turns out that foreign competition leads to an increase of average per capita executive …
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