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Are Wages in Southern Europe more Flexible? The Effects of a Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2005

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Bildungspolitik in Frankreich

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die wesentlichen bildungspolitischen Erfahrungen der letzten Jahrzehnte in Frankreich darzustellen und im Hinblick auf die bildungspolitische Debatte in Deutschland zu bewerten. Die allgemeinen Ziele der Bildungspolitik - wie z.B. die Anhebung des Bildungsniveaus,...

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Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions

Ammermüller, Andreas - 2005

Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...

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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe …

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EU enlargement and immigration

Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - 2000

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU...

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The threat of systemic risk in banking: evidence for Europe

Schüler, Martin - 2002

are used as a measure for interdependencies among European banks, and hence for the systemic risk potential in Europe …

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Systemic Risk in European Banking: Evidence from Bivariate GARCH Models

Schüler, Martin; Schröder, Michael - 2003

This paper attempts to assess the Europe-wide systemic risk in banking. We employ a bivariate GARCH model to estimate … interdependencies amongst the banking business in Europe and hence for the systemic risk potential. We employ several tests to assess …

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Human capital investment strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2011

The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe … diversity and the other a unified Europe. Our results indicate that investments need to be directed more generally to people of … younger ages in Europe. If equality is important enough additional investment should specifically be directed to disadvantaged …

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Tax competition in Europe: Europe in competition with other world regions?

Streif, Frank - 2015

Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax … whether the decline in corporate tax levels in Europe is mainly driven by tax competition between EU member states or by … evidence for tax competition within Europe, whereas there is no robust evidence that European countries compete with countries …

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Patent litigation in Europe

Cremers, Katrin; Ernicke, Max; Gaessler, Fabian; … - 2013

We compare patent litigation cases across four European jurisdictions - Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK - covering cases filed during the period 2000-2008. For our analysis, we assemble a new dataset that contains detailed information at the case, litigant, and patent level for...

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