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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic

Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022

Drawing upon data from the largest cross-country study of labor market concentration to date, this paper analyzes the level of concentration of labor input markets in Europe and North America and provides a comparative perspective on employers' monopsony power. It explores the characteristics of...

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Complementarities in corporate governance : a survey of the literature with special emphasis on Japan

Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1999

The present paper uses a comparison of Japan and the US to argue that the debate about corporate governance reform is best framed in terms of systems of complementary instruments and institutions. It argues that the Japanese and US systems of corporate governance differ along many dimensions,...

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Labor market policies, institutions and employment rates in the EU-27

Rovelli, Riccardo (contributor); Bruno, Randolph (contributor) - 2008

We compare labor market policies, institutions and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We … document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on …

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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 48 per cent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … 23 to 32 per cent in the EU and 19 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic stabilizers …

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International differences in longevity and health and their economic consequences

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009

In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...

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Who compares to whom? : the anatomy of income comparisons in Europe

Clark, Andrew E.; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2009

This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...

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Mortgage finance in Central and Eastern Europe : opportunity or burden?

Beck, Thorsten; Kibuuka, Katie; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2010

vulnerability ; EU accession …

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Corruption and productivity firm-level evidence from the BEEPS survey

De Rosa, Donato; Gooroochurn, Nishaal; Görg, Holger - 2010

cumbersome bureaucratic requirements. When the sample is split between EU and non-EU countries, the time tax turns out to have a … negative effect only in EU countries and the bribe tax only in non-EU countries. This suggests that the institutional …

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Home-leaving decisions of daughters and sons

Chiuri, Maria Concetta; Del Boca, Daniela - 2010

In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we explore the impacts of various factors that affect daughters' and sons' home-leaving decisions....

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