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García Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2009

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …

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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs

Fonseca, Raquel (contributor); … - 2007

marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor); … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Productivity, welfare and reallocation : theory and firm-level evidence

Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009

contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books

Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015

, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective … go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …

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The effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on wage behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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The effect of macroeconomic uncertainty on household spending

Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021

measured in follow-up surveys. Higher macroeconomic uncertainty induces households to reduce their spending on non …

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Research funding and regional economies

Goldschlag, Nathan; Bianchini, Stefano; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

use new micro-data from three countries - France, Spain and the United States - to examine one mechanism whereby such …

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Two-tier labor markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …

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