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Understanding inter-industry wage structures in the euro area
Genre, Véronique; Kohn, Karsten; Momferatou, Daphne - 2009
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging …-country panel of 22 industries in 8 euro area countries for 1991-2002. Data inspection confirms the existence of a fairly stable … explaining inter-industry wage differentials in the euro area. Both workforce characteristics (e.g., human capital variables) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269057
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market: First results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277963
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271269
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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. Macro-economic recession and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280717
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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007
Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268671
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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending
Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268861
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Welfare and employment: a European dilemma?
Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - 2008
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269379
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Labor market policies and outcomes: cross country evidence for the EU-27
Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2007
We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on indicators of policy generosity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271875
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Labor market policies, institutions and employment rates in the EU-27
Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2008
We compare labor market policies, institutions and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on indicators of policy generosity (expenditures relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271881
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The contribution of social transfers to the reduction of poverty
Longford, Nicholas T.; Nicodemo, Catia - 2010
We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social...
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