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Regional Labour Market Differences in Serbia: Assessment and Policy Recommendations

Arandarenko, Mihail; Jovicic, Milena - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 4 (2007) 2, pp. 299-317

Creating effective employment policy to combat rising unemployment and widening regional labour market differences is a …

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The Determinants of Actual Migration and the Role of Wages and Unemployment in Albania: an Empirical Analysis

Cattaneo, Cristina - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 5 (2008) 1, pp. 3-32

: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level … wages and unemployment, included in the migration equation, are retrieved from a first stage wage and unemployment equations …. The results reveal that both wage and unemployment differentials are important determinants of the propensity to migrate …

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Pay Inequality in Europe 1995-2000: Convergence Between Countries and Stability Inside

Galbraith, James; Garcilazo, Enrique - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 2 (2005) 2, pp. 139-175

This paper measures pay inequality in the EU during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. The decomposability property of Theil's T statistic permits us to construct a three-level hierarchical panel data set of pay inequalities for the years 1995-2000: between and within regions,...

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Properties of the Histogram Location Approach and the Extent and Change of Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in the EU

Behr, Andreas - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 3 (2006) 1, pp. 15-29

The histogram location approach has been proposed by Kahn (1997) to estimate the fraction of wage cuts prevented by downward nominal wage rigidity. In this paper, we analyze the validity of the approach by means of a simulation study which yielded evidence of unbiasedness but also of potential...

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How do Labor Market Institutions affect the Link between Growth and Unemployment: the case of the European countries

Adjemian, Stéphane; Langot, François; Quintero-Rojas, … - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 7 (2010) 2, pp. 347-371

unemployment. To this goal, we develop a schumpeterian model of endogenous growth: agents have the choice between employment and R … and D activities. Unemployment is caused by the wage-setting behavior of unions. We show that: (i) Increases in the labor … costs or in the power of trade unions lead to higher unemployment and lower economic growth. (ii) Efficient bargain allows …

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