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Eichhorst, Werner - 2011

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...

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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 …

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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

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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Trade, quality upgrading and wage inequality in the Mexican manufacturing sector

Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2007

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in developing countries the quality-upgrading mechanism and investigates its empirical implications in panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants. In a model with heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the...

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Exports and wages: Rent sharing, workforce composition or returns to skills?

Macis, Mario; Schivardi, Fabiano - 2012

We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a large and unforeseen shock to Italian firms' incentives to export. The results indicate that the...

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Following Germany's Lead : Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy

di Giovanni, Julian; McCrary, Justin; von Wachter, Till - 2005

policy was more independent of Germany. …

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Migrant ethnic identity: concept and policy implications

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...

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Productivity and size of the export market: evidence for West and East German plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …

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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008

individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268746

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