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Employment and education policy for young people in the EU: what can new member states learn from old member states?

Pastore, Francesco (contributor) - 2007

The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … quality, more inclusive to reduce the dropout rate, homogeneous to other EU countries to favour labour mobility, flexible to …

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Is corporate R&D investment in high-tech sectors more effective? : some guidelines for European Research Policy

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - 2009

This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...

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A new regional geography of Europe? : The labour market impact of the EU enlargements

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto (contributor); … - 2007

"This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...

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The job creation effect of R&D expenditures

Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, Marco - 2010

In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel estimations of a demand-for-labour equation augmented with technology. We find that R&D...

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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...

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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....

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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014

This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household surveys, (b) data on national statutory minimum wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected...

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The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch components of unemployment, if not the Keynesian and neoclassical ones, as also the experience of...

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The transatlantic productivity gap : is R&D the main culprit?

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; … - 2011

these transatlantic differences may be related to the different sectoral structures in the US and the EU, we differentiated … change ; US ; EU …

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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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