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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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The productivity impact of R&D investment : a comparison between the EU and the US

Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016

Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU …-tech sectors. Our results also show that the US/EU productivity gap has worsened during the crisis period, as the EU companies have …

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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019

This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a financial asset and...

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Types of institutions and well-being of self-employed and paid employees in Europe

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

countries measured by data from EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). We find that institutions never …

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Drivers of participation elasticities across Europe : gender or earner role within the household?

Bartels, Charlotte; Shupe, Cortnie - 2018

We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax-benefit systems …

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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...

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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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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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Employment protection, technology choice, and worker allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Gautier, Pieter; Wind, Joris de - 2010

mechanism can explain a considerable portion of the slowdown in productivity in the EU relative to the US since 1995 …

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