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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2003

employment and labor market dynamics in current EU-member and candidate countries. The ultimate aim of this analysis is the … provision of forecasts for future labor market developments in the context of EU-enlargement. To this end, we investigate this … EU-countries. Moreover, it could be expected that unemployment rates in the accession countries will decline somewhat …

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Training in Europe

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the period 1994-1999. We focus on ?lifelong learning?, fixed-term contracts, part-time versus full-time work, public/private sector affiliation, educational attainment, and the...

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Are there asymmetries in the effects of training on the conditional male wage distribution?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human capital theory suggests that the percentage returns to training investments will be the same across the conditional...

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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? : Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004

This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...

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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade. Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2004

, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo … to CEE specialisation in low-quality exports to EU markets. In particular, the estimates suggest the existence of a … market size of the EU accession countries could contribute to strengthen the disadvantage in high quality segments of …

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Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? : Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution

Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2004

public and the private sector wages distribution for each of our EU countries. …

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Income Volatility and Residential Mortgage Delinquency : Evidence from 12 EU Countries

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2004

We investigate the socio-economic determinants of mortgage delinquency in 12 EU countries and observe that income …

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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?

Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004

those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …

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Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries : Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2005

Using representative individual-level data from the first round of the European Social Survey fielded in 2002/03, this paper provides an empirical analysis of unionization in 18 countries of the European Union. We show that union density varies considerably in Europe, ranging from 84 per cent in...

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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe : An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001

Knoppik, Christoph; Beissinger, Thomas - 2005

) for twelve of the EU?s current member states. Our estimates for the degree of downward nominal wage rigidity on the … national as well as the EU-wide level point to marked downward nominal wage rigidity within the European Union. …

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