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is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the … impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 …
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This paper examines whether European regions which incorporate banks with a higher intermediation quality grow faster and are more resilient to negative shocks than its less efficient peers. For this purpose, we measure a bank's intermediation quality by estimating its profit and cost efficiency...
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then estimate the dynamic response of the employment level, the employment rate and the participation rate using the region … shocks that cause stronger and more persistent reactions of the employment and the participation rate. However, we detect a …
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This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data … from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because … more exposed to external shocks. We assess the conditional employment volatility of firms with foreign and domestic owners …
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develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …
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We exploit the exogenous variation in regional credit market contestability brought on by banking deregulation in the United States to study the narrowing of the gender gap in local labor markets. We find that deregulation reduced the gender gap in labor force participation, as the subsequent...
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Throughout the covid‐19 emergency, health authorities have presented contagion data divided by administrative regions with no reference to the type of landscape, environment or development model. This study has been conducted to understand whether there is a correlation between the number of...
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This study focuses on the employment effect of a hiring subsidy available to firms with less than 50 employees, granted … discontinuity design, estimates show on average 2 percentage points higher employment growth for firms that became eligible for the … scheme. However, tests and complementary regressions suggest that the higher employment growth for smaller firms in 2013 is …
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importance for structural and macroeconomic policy, for instance, in increasing the employment of both people and hours worked …
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We use a cohort based model to analyze determinants of labour force participation for disaggregated groups of workers in the euro area and the five largest euro area countries. The model captures age and cohort effects as indicators of (unobserved) determinants of participation behaviour. We use...
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