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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 - 2008

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services ofsshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …

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Labour supply and labour force participation in Europe: a discussion of some recent developments and projections

Plane, Mathieu; Döpke, Jörg; Chagny, Odile; Schmidt, … - 2001

The prospects for labour supply in Europe are considered. The analysis begins with a so-called labour market balance covering the development on an aggregate level. Estimations to shed light on the relation between unemployment and labour force participation are given in the second part of the...

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006

people’s employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

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Venture Capital in Europe's Common Market: A Quantitative Description

Schertler, Andrea - 2001

This paper offers a quantitative description of European private equity markets and compares the recent development in these markets with the development of the US venture capital market. Moreover, the paper addresses the differences between private equity investors acting in a single national...

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Indikatoren für die konjunkturellen Wirkungen der Geldpolitik: Evidenz aus sechs großen Industrieländern

Döpke, Jörg; Gern, Klaus-Jürgen - 1993

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Optionen einer effizienten Gestaltung der Arbeitslosenversicherung

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001

The paper is about the economically efficient design of financial transfers to the unemployed in a highly industrialized country. There have been quite a few contributions to this problem — for example by Beenstock/Brasse, Feldstein/ Altman, Grubel, Orzag/Snower — which are presented and...

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Alternative Systeme der Arbeitslosenversicherung: das Beispiel der Vereinigten Staaten und des Vereinigten Königreichs

Glismann, Hans H.; Schrader, Klaus - 2001

Comparing the unemployment insurance systems of the United States and of the United Kingdom it is shown that the US unemployment insurance (UI) is the only system that provides for a negative feedback between UI expenditures and layoffs (“experience rating”). The UK has no specific UI:...

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Ressourcen und Ergebnisse der globalen Gesundheitsökonomie: Einführung und Überblick

Stolpe, Michael - 2003

Entwicklungen in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA vorgestellt. …

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The impact of regionalism on the multilateral trading order: French tariff bargaining in the Uruguay Round

Piazolo, Daniel - 1995

This paper analyzes the GATT negotiations during the Uruguay Round and shows that France was induced to accept a more free trade oriented package due to her integration into the European community. The importance of the European economic and diplomatic relationships led France to accept a GATT...

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