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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415712
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Welfare migration in Europe and the cost of a harmonised social assistance
De Giorgi, Giacomo (contributor);  … - 2006
the actual implementation of this system would be politically problematic. -- EU enlargement ; migration ; welfare state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310966
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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are … out the difficulties that restrictions on the free movement of workers bring about. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793577
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
who have been trained in Europe could set a new course. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU Eastern enlargement ; free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809161
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Lessons from migration after EU enlargement
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863171
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Die Aussenfinanzierung privater Haushalte und nichtfinanzieller Kapitalgesellschaften : ein Vergleich zwischen dem Euro-Währungsgebiet und den Vereinigten Staaten
In: Monatsbericht / Europäische Zentralbank (2009), pp. 75-92
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825025
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893888
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898065
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940327