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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic
Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415712
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External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Kristensen, Nicolai; Pozzoli, Dario - 2009
-country health comparison ; vignettes ; subjective and objective measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808611
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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811075
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288530
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Global poverty goals and prices : how purchasing power parity matters
Jolliffe, Dean; Prydz, Espen Beer - 2015
With the recent release of the 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) data from the International Comparison Program (ICP …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528588
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380028
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Measuring unemployment insurance generosity
Pallage, Stéphane J. (contributor);  … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782507
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Unemployment insurance generosity : a trans-atlantic comparison
Pallage, Stéphane J. (contributor);  … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782515
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A call for comparative research : consequences of a rising income inequality for state activities
Neubäumer, Renate - 2011
these shares in order not to fall behind in the international competition, they must accept a rising public debt and/or must …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009244110
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Export take-offs and acceleration : unpacking cross-sector linkages in the evolution of comparative advantage
Bahar, Dany; Rosenow, Samuel; Stein, Ernesto; Wagner, … - 2018
The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959951