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Union power and product market competition : evidence from the airline industry

Neven, Damien J.; Röller, Lars-Hendrik; Zhang, Zhentang - 1999 - Rev

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Innovationstrends in der chemischen Industrie : e. Analyse europäischer Unternehmen

Greb, Robert - 1996

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Union power and product market competition : evidence from the airline industry

Neven, Damien J. - 1997

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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries

Callan, Tim; Smeeding, Tim; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008

Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular...

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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …

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Local social capital and geographical mobility: a theory

David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2008

In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...

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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …

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Explaining the spread of temporary jobs and its impact on labor turnover

Cahuc, Pierre; Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2012

This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations neglected by the economic literature so far, reproduces the main stylized facts about entries into...

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