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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature

Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...

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Skills for Competitiveness : Leveraging Skills for Competitiveness in Europe

World Bank Group - 2018

The global technology and innovation frontier pushes forward at a rapid pace, and countries around the world seek to either keep up, or catch up. Countries at the frontier are forward-looking, have robust economies, are open to investment and technology, and have competitive, well-matched...

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Labor market concentration and competition policy across the Atlantic

Araki, Satoshi; Bassanini, Andrea; Green, Andrew S.; … - 2022

of enforcement activity by European competition authorities in labor markets relative to the US. While enforcement action … competition enforcement in labor markets. The article identifies sectors and practices that may be scrutinized with priority by … European competition authorities and proposes a mix of enforcement, merger control and well-targeted policy and regulatory …

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Gender-job satisfaction differences across Europe : an indicator for labor market modernization

Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2005

decades. -- cross-national comparison ; gender-job satisfaction paradox ; labor supply ; labor market modernization …

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Policy Matters : Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy

Energy Sector Management Assistance Program - 2018

Sustainable energy is at the heart of the global development and climate change agenda. Reaching the targets set by the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) will require a rapid increase in energy access, renewable energy and the efficient use of existing energy resources....

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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor); … - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period

Papadopoulos, Fotis; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016

The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...

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Perspectives on poverty in Europe

Jenkins, Stephen - 2018

; how progress on EU poverty reduction has been disappointing and why this has been; conceptual and measurement issues; and …

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Data Deprivation: Another Deprivation to End

Serajuddin, Umar - 2015

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of "ending extreme poverty." However, the data needed to monitor progress remain severely limited....

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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth

Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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