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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

See also the publication in Small Business Economics (2013), 40(3), 651-670. Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e....

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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe

Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …

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Self-Employment around Retirement Age

Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions

Burger, Martijn J.; Knaap, Bert van der; Wall, Ronald S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

In the modern economy, cities are assumed to be in fierce competition over attracting foreign investments in leading sectors of the world economy. Despite the rich theoretical discourse on these 'wars', it remains unclear which territories are competing with each other over which types of...

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The Magnitude and Distance Decay of Trade in Goods and Services: New Evidence for European Countries

Burger, Martijn J.; Thissen, Mark; Oort, Frank G. van; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Using a newly assembled, consistent and disaggregated dataset (12 goods and 7 services) on internal and bilateral trade for 25 European countries, we analyse the difference between trade in goods and services. The measurement of both trade in goods and trade in services is improved over earlier...

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The Crisis Sensitivity of European Countries and Regions: Stylized Facts and Spatial Heterogeneity

Groot, Stefan P.T.; Mohlmann, Jan L.; Garretsen, Harry; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

This paper investigates the impact of the recent global recession on European countries and regions. We first present several stylized facts as to the heterogeneous impact of the global recession on individual European countries and regions. We then offer an investigation of three main classes...

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The Entrepreneurial Ladder and its Determinants

Zwan, Peter van der; Thurik, Roy; Grilo, Isabel - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

We test a new model where the entrepreneurial decision is described as a process of successive engagement levels, i.e., as an entrepreneurial ladder. Five levels are distinguished using nearly 12,000 observations from the 2004 “Flash Eurobarometer survey on Entrepreneurship” covering the 25...

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Financial Distress and Happiness of Employees in Times of Economic Crisis

Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn J.; Veenhoven, Ruut - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

Using data for 28 European countries for the 2008-2012 period, we examine whether employed individuals are affected by the economic crisis. We provide robust evidence that unfavourable macroeconomic conditions are negatively associated with the life satisfaction of employees. In addition, we...

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The Effect of Growth and Inequality in Incomes on Health Inequality: Theory and Empirical Evidence from the European Panel

Ourti, Tom Van; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Koolman, Xander - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using ….Keywords:income inequality, health inequality, income elasticity of health, Europe.Classification-JEL: D30, D31, I10, I12. …

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Determinants of Job Satisfaction across the EU-15: A Comparison of Self-Employed and Paid Employees

Millan, Jose Maria; Hessels, Jolanda; Thurik, Roy; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Job satisfaction of self-employed and paid-employed workers is analyzed using the European Community Household Panel for the EU-15 covering the years 1994-2001. We distinguish between two types of job satisfaction, i.e. job satisfaction in terms of type of work and job satisfaction in terms of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008867504