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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …
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model does not support the view expressed by Davis (1998) that global equilibrium links insulate the US labor market from …
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This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...
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Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation … than contextual factors such as labor market institutions or the business cycle, it is almost exclusively the program type … Market Policy ; program evaluation ; meta analysis …
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This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...
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Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these … countries, women's determinants of labor market transitions are compared by means of pooled multinominal logit-regressions. The …
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"We investigate wage effects of deviations from peer group body mass index (BMI) to evaluate the influence of social norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity effects associated with deviations from a clinically...
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This paper investigates the determinants of residential mobility of older households (above 50 years old) and the adjustment of housing for those who move employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel. Although homeowners are less likely to move compared to renters, an...
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