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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally?
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001
The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262537
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007
France have flatter wealth gradients. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268364
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141
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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003
separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …, and it allows workers to care about other job characteristics. The empirical analysis focuses on France, but we perform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261551
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Work hours constraints and health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282274
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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141
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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour
Lauer, Charlotte - 1999
This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262269
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Whatever works: Dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010
non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …-paid service jobs, as non-wage labour costs are minimised. In France, fixed-term contracts are a flexible and also cheaper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269940