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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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High skilled migration and the exertion of effort by the local population

Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701397

Recent developments in part-time work in EU-15 countries : trends and policy

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

A growing part-time employment share has been a main feature of a number of industrialized countries over the past two decades. A considerable variation in the rate of part-time work is evident by gender, age group, industrial sector and occupation. The stylized facts support the view that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002513414

The determinants of part-time work in EU countries : empirical investigations with macro-panel data

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002475352

Part-time work in EU countries : labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2005

-time, over part-time employment, than in the US, with considerable variation across EU countries. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002706669

Employment dynamics of married women in Europe

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2005

We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039651

Transitions in labour market status in the EU

Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie; Macchiarelli, Corrado - 2013

This paper presents information on labour market mobility in 23 EU countries, using Eurostat's Labour Force Survey (LFS … area and central eastern European EU (CEE EU) countries compared to Denmark and, particularly, Sweden. Moreover …, while it increased in the average CEE EU countries. At the same time, however, successful labour market entries (from …

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Real unit labour costs in Eurozone countries : drivers and clusters

Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José Ignacio - 2014

We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components - real wages, capital intensity, and technology - are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In the...

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Unemployment insurance in Europe : unemployment duration and subsequent employment stability

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006

"The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient matching process, as the unemployed can search for a longer period, has attracted much less...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359283

Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe : the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779036