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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925275
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Crime and police resources : the street crime initiative
Machin, Stephen (contributor); Marie, Olivier (contributor) - 2005
In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention the Street Crime Initiative that was introduced in England and Wales in 2002. This allocated additional resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287664
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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The effect of job displacement on the transitions to employment and early retirement for older workers in four European countries
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2007
-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561642
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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The part-time wage penalty in European countries : how large is it for men?
O'Dorchai, Sile (contributor); Plasman, Robert (contributor) - 2007
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers … penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e. Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 per cent of male part-timer’s wage in Spain, to 24 per cent in Belgium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529747
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Geographic labour mobility and unemployment insurance in Europe
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226261
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Inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap : evidence from European countries
Gannon, Brenda; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François; … - 2005
This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set, the 1995 European Structure of Earnings Survey. Findings show the existence of significant inter-industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002770313
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
workforce composition. We then consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on income distribution, emphasizing … discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631462