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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821909
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Capital prices and Eurozone competitiveness differentials
Askenazy, Philippe - 2013
Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009715724
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369774
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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800159
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Why does emissions trading under the EU ETS not affect firms' competitiveness? : empirical findings from the literature
Joltreau, Eugénie; Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2017
Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785693
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On the multivariate analysis of the "Lisbon process"
Tausch, Arno (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor);  … - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646699
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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?
Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005
This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158652
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The obesity epidemic in Europe
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna (contributor) - 2005
This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158654
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The effectiveness of European active labor market policy
Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006
Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330264
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952