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Unemployment and labor reallocation in Europe

Hogrefe, Jan; Sachs, Andreas - 2014

We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … is linked to unemployment in country specific dynamic models. For Spain, the ADL-model estimation reveals a significant … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …

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Rivals or partners? : Evidence from Europe's international private equity deals

Tykvová, Tereza (contributor); … - 2006

Cross-border private equity deals have increased substantially in recent years. This study looks at the issue of how European investors view their local counterparts in the portfolio companies’ home countries. If they regard them as rivals, they will target countries that lack a private equity...

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How does the domiciliation decision affect mutual fund fees?

Lang, Gunnar; Köhler, Matthias - 2011

In this paper, we analyze whether the domiciliation decision of mutual funds has an impact on fund fees. To explain the fee price-setting of mutual funds, we consider characteristics specific to funds, fund companies, and countries. We find that fees vary considerably across fund types and...

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

Streif, Frank - 2015 - This version: 16 November 2015

Corporate tax levels have fallen substantially in Europe during the last decades. A broad literature has identified tax competition as one reason for this decline in corporate tax levels. However, none of these studies explicitly asks the question whether tax competition within regions is...

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Balancing competition and cooperation : evidence from transatlantic airline markets

Bilotkach, Volodymyr; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015

In the last two decades, airline alliances were not only successful in extending the size of their networks, but also received approvals by public authorities to intensify their cooperation through to merger-like revenue-sharing joint ventures (JVs). We empirically investigate the impact of the...

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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms : a European perspective

Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - 2013

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due...

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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe

Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016

A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. This paper is the first to estimate the labor demand effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC) for Europe as a whole and at the...

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Employment effects of innovations over the business cycle : firm-level evidence from European countries

Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Koehler, Christian; … - 2016

A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper, we investigate the employment effects of innovations...

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Housing and health

Angel, Stefan - 2014

both sources of endogeneity, neighborhoods and dwellings. Furthermore, using the panel dimension of our data, we reveal the …

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Women on the board and executive duration : evidence for European listed firms

Buchwald, Achim; Hottenrott, Hanna - 2015

The participation of women in top-level corporate boards (or rather the lack of it) is subject to intense public debate. Several countries are considering legally binding quotas to increase the share of women on boards. Indeed, research on board diversity suggests positive effects of gender...

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