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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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High skilled migration and the exertion of effort by the local population

Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001701397

Job security and job protection

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor); … - 2005

We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider the relation between reported job security and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection...

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Recent developments in part-time work in EU-15 countries : trends and policy

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

A growing part-time employment share has been a main feature of a number of industrialized countries over the past two decades. A considerable variation in the rate of part-time work is evident by gender, age group, industrial sector and occupation. The stylized facts support the view that...

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Heterogeneity in reported well-being : evidence from twelve European countries

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice; Postel-Vinay, Fabien; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both intercept and slope heterogeneity into this relationship, we strongly reject the hypothesis that individuals transform...

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The determinants of part-time work in EU countries : empirical investigations with macro-panel data

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two …

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Part-time work in EU countries : labour market mobility, entry and exit

Buddelmeyer, Hielke (contributor); … - 2005

-time, over part-time employment, than in the US, with considerable variation across EU countries. …

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Employment dynamics of married women in Europe

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2005

We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial...

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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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Transitions in labour market status in the EU

Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie; Macchiarelli, Corrado - 2013

This paper presents information on labour market mobility in 23 EU countries, using Eurostat's Labour Force Survey (LFS … area and central eastern European EU (CEE EU) countries compared to Denmark and, particularly, Sweden. Moreover …, while it increased in the average CEE EU countries. At the same time, however, successful labour market entries (from …

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