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The economic impact of immigration in Greece: taking stock of the existing evidence
Cholezas, Ioannis; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008
Greece was traditionally an emigration country. However, since the early 1990s it became an immigrant destination and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269050
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The gender wage gap as a function of educational degree choices in an occupationally segregated EU country
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269462
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Earnings determination and taxes: evidence from a cohort based payroll tax reform in Greece
Saez, Emmanuel; Matsaganis, Manos; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2010
This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269583
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Wage returns to university disciplines in Greece: are Greek higher education degrees Trojan horses?
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271251
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The impact of Greek labour market regulation on temporary and family employment: Evidence from a new survey
Anagnostopoulos, Achilleas; Siebert, W. Stanley - 2012
This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282227
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Short-run distributional effects of public education in Greece
Koutsampelas, Christos; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2012
The present paper examines the short-run distributional impact of public education in Greece using the micro-data of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282496
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Catch me if you can: education and catch-up in the industrial revolution
Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269478
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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282579
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Integration, labor market regulation, lobbying, and technological change
Palokangas, Tapio - 2009
This paper examines an economic union where oligopolistic firms produce by skilled and unskilled labor and do in-house R&D by skilled labor. The planner of the union accepts new members to the union, regulates the labor market through a minimum wage for unskilled labor and supports firms by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269270
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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-term Solution of the Euro Crisis
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the … growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality. Finally, the important role of mid-left parties is highlighted. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307457