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On the bilateral trade effects of free trade agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003769782
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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
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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
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Explaining how delayed motherhood affects fertility dynamics in Europe
Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the effect of delaying the first child on the transition to the second birth differs both among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793536
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The role of association agreements within European Union enlargement to Central and Eastern European countries
Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor);  … - 2007
The main goal of regionalization is the creation of free trade areas and the guarantee for countries to accede to a widened market. Many studies dealing with the effects of regional free trade agreements on trade flows already exist in the economic literature and the explosion in the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590825
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Residential mobility and housing adjustment of older households in Europe
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006
This paper investigates the determinants of residential mobility of older households (above 50 years old) and the adjustment of housing for those who move employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel. Although homeowners are less likely to move compared to renters, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499212
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Who loses in the downturn? : Economic crisis, employment and income distribution
Immervoll, Herwig (ed.); Peichl, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2011 - 1. ed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009155531
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The transition from work to retirement
Eichhorst, Werner - 2011
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy … of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU … supranational policy initiatives and national politico-economic factors in shaping the transition from work to retirement in EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229627
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The impact of the crisis on employment and the role of labour market institutions
Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Verónica; Marx, Paul; … - 2010
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302183
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The pass-through of exchange rate in the context of the European sovereign debt crisis
Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Rault, Christophe - 2015
This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Using logistic smooth transition models, we explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376318