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The ins and outs of European unemployment
Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor);  … - 2008
countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making use of both … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652692
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK
Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009
also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905696
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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959628
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
France have flatter wealth gradients. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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Never the same after the first time : the satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed
Clark, Andrew E. (contributor);  … - 2008
Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data from the ECHP and British data from the BHPS, we investigate the domains over which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003697368
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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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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms : evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989751
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Self-selection into export markets by business services firms : evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009356952