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countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …
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This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic...
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This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to … discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more regulated and centralized in Portugal, with …
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We argue in favour of the shareholder model of the firm for three main reasons. First, serving multiple stakeholders leads to ill-defined property rights. What sounds like a fair compromise between stakeholders can easily evolve in a permanent struggle between the stakeholders about the ultimate...
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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....
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?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 …
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administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional … Netherlands should be more responsive to economic changes. On the other hand, there is unlikely to be such a divergence in capital …
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In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students combine working and …
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