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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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Pacts for employment and competitiveness as a role model? : their effects on firm performance

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2015

Pacts for employment and competitiveness are an integral component of the ongoing process of decentralization of collective bargaining in Germany, a phenomenon that has been hailed as key to that nation's economic resurgence. Yet little is known about the effects of pacts on firm performance....

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Real unit labour costs in Eurozone countries : drivers and clusters

Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector; Silva, José Ignacio - 2014

We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components - real wages, capital intensity, and technology - are uncovered through decomposition and cluster analyses. In the...

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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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Euro, crisis and unemployment : youth patterns, youth policies?

Ghoshray, Atanu; Ordóñez, Javier; Sala, Hector - 2016

This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events experienced by the European economies at an institutional level: the creation of the European and Monetary Union (EMU) in 1999, and the Euro/financial crisis in 2008-2009, which was...

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