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Changes in the Czech Wage Structure : Does Immigration Matter?
Dybczak, Kamil; Galuscak, Kamil - 2021
Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316167
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Wealth Differences across Borders and the Effect of Real Estate Price Dynamics : Evidence from Two Household Surveys
Mathae, Thomas - 2014
Crossing borders, be it international or regional, often go together with price, wage or indeed wealth discontinuities. This paper identifies substantial wealth differences between Luxembourg resident households and cross-border commuter households despite their similar incomes. The average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055306
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Labour Market Adjustments in Europe and the US : How Different?
Beyer, Robert - 2015
We compare the labour market response to region-specific shocks in Europe and the US and to national shocks in Europe …-specific variables and the country factors. We find that both in Europe and the US labour mobility accounts for about 50% of the long run … adjustment to region-specific labour demand shocks and only a little more in the US than in Europe, where adjustment takes twice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025742
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Changes in the Czech wage structure: Does immigration matter?
Dybczak, Kamil; Galuščák, Kamil - 2010
Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605288
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Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs : An Analysis of European Competitiveness
Timmer, Marcel P. - 2013
, conventional indicators of competitiveness based on gross exports become less informative and new measures are needed. In this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072991
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House Price Cycles in Europe
Corradin, Stefano - 2013
sets of results. First, house price returns in Europe are generally characterized by three (high, medium and low) phases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072994
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Predicting Distress in European Banks
Betz, Frank - 2013
both bank and country-level data. As outright bank failures have been rare in Europe, the paper introduces a novel dataset …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074637
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Lobbying in Europe : New Firm-Level Evidence
Dellis, Konstantinos - 2017
Lobbying can provide policy makers with important sector-specific information and thereby facilitating informed decisions. If going far beyond this, in particular if successfully influencing policy makers to unnecessarily tighten regulation or not opening already excessively regulated markets,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954407
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Firm Growth in Europe : An Overview Based on the CompNet Labour Module
Fernández, Cristina - 2017
This paper illustrates the main features of the Labour Module of the CompNet dataset which provides indicators of firm growth over the period 1995-2012 across 17 EU (13 euro area) countries and 9 macro-sectors. It also includes information on a large set of micro-aggregated characteristics of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957982
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A Stochastic Forward-Looking Model to Assess the Profitability and Solvency of European Insurers
Berdin, Elia - 2017
In this paper, we develop an analytical framework for conducting forward-looking assessments of profitability and solvency of the main euro area insurance sectors. We model the balance sheet of an insurance company encompassing both life and non-life business and we calibrate it using country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961958