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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2007
labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265532
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Short-run and long-term effects of childbirth on mothers' employment and working hours across institutional regimes: an empirical analysis based on the European Community Household...
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2007
Denmark, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, which represent four distinct 'institutional regimes', we estimate the short …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268144
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
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
US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
who came through the employment channel are more likely to be in full-time paid work. In Denmark, however, the status at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Intra-household time allocation: gender differences in caring for children
Garcia, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; Montuenga, … - 2009
characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275884
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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287680
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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262250
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in the period 1988-2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed administrative data, we exploit the cross-regional variation in initial industry structures and use trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967