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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union
Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018
(EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …
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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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Labor market concentration
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall - 2017
A product market is concentrated when a few firms dominate the market. Similarly, a labor market is concentrated when a few firms dominate hiring in the market. Using data from the leading employment website CareerBuilder.com, we calculate labor market concentration for over 8,000...
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Concentration in US labor markets : evidence from online vacancy data
Azar, José; Marinescu, Ioana; Steinbaum, Marshall; … - 2018
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each commuting zone by 6-digit SOC occupation. The average market has an HHI of 3,953, or the...
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Job losses, outsourcing and relocation : empirical evidence using microdata
Artís Ortuño, Manuel (contributor);  … - 2007
' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 …
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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2008
the EU-15 shows that horizontal investment promotes the diffusion of the production process across the national border …
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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 …
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Trade as a wage disciplining device
Persyn, Damiaan (contributor) - 2008
sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as …
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The long term effects of legalizing divorce on children
González, Libertad (contributor);  … - 2008
We estimate the effect of divorce legalization on the long-term well-being of children. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the different timing of divorce legalization across European countries. Using European Community Household Panel data, we compare the adult outcomes of cohorts...
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