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, 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 …
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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...
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principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …
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provide comparable results for seven European countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK). …
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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...
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Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
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penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e. Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 per cent of male part-timer's wage in Spain, to 24 per cent in Belgium …, to 28 per cent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 per cent in the UK and to 149 per cent in Ireland. Human capital differences …
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non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low … can be seen from high shares of self-employed and part-timers, as well as temporary workers. Finally, Belgium has large …
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This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different indicators of similarity of sectoral structure, it improves on...
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national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams to score in the last minute - including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more …
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