We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work … during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four … concentrated in the public sector in all four countries, it is relatively less concentrated there in Sweden. Our results emphasize …

This paper addresses the issues of identification and dating of the Euro-zone business cycle by using the Markov … growth in the Euro-zone are identified by fitting Markov-switching models to aggregated and single-country Euro-zone real GDP … the smoothed regime probabilities from the Markov-switching models the Euro-zone business cycle is dated and recessions …

Most of the Euro-zone economic short-term indicators are computed through aggregation from Member States data. The … given in the paper. An application to the Euro-zone GDP is presented. The same aggregation problem encountered in the case … widely used in the literature, we extracted the cycle indicator for the Euro-zone employing the Baxter-King filter to data …

turning points in the Euro-zone using the Neftçi's approach. The output is a probability index for a forthcoming economic …