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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308548
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294707
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Labour mobility : an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? ; empirical evidence for Western Germany, France, and Italy
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294709
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The role of the exchange rate regime in the process of real and nominal convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2013
conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be … inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related …-S type of regression for each regime. Our results show that, for countries which pegged to or adopted the euro, the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191206
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Some thoughts on macroeconomic fluctuations and the timing of labor market reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
In this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political viability, and macroeconomic fine tuning. While the optimal timing of a reform depends on the relative importance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414121
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Boon or bane? : others' unemployment, well-being and job insecurity
Clark, Andrew E.; Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - 2009
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this standard result, but then suggest that the appropriate distinction may not be between employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860394
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Item non-response on income and wealth questions
Riphahn, Regina T.; Serfling, Oliver - 2002
After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the association of covariates with item non-response across outcomes? Second, can the informational value of surveys be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413300
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A nation-wide laboratory : examining trust and trustworthiness by integrating behavioral experiments into representative surveys
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Rosenbladt, Bernhard von; … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001730961
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Using panel data on income satisfaction to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity
Schwarze, Johannes - 2000
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339693
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Preferences for childcare policies : theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755931