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Services and Employment : Explaining the U.S.-European Gap

Baumol, William J. (contributor); Blow, Laura (contributor); … - 2007

Why is Europe's employment rate almost 10 percent lower than that of the United States? This "jobs gap" has typically been blamed on the rigidity of European labor markets. But in Services and Employment, an international group of leading labor economists suggests quite a different explanation....

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The astonishing regularity of service employment expansion

Schettkat, Ronald - In: Metroeconomica : international review of economics 58 (2007) 3, pp. 413-435

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What can we learn from other countries? : Comparative research on the impact of wages on employment performance

Schettkat, Ronald - In: Labour markets, gender and institutional change : …, (pp. 21-35). 2002

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Institutions in the economic fitness landscape : what impact do welfare state institutions have on economic performance? ; labour market institutions and unemployment

Schettkat, Ronald - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 1 (2003) 2, pp. 27-33

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Small-economy macroeconomics

Schettkat, Ronald - In: Changing labour markets in Europe : the role of …, (pp. 12-54). 2001

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How bad are welfare-state institutions for economic development? : The amazing vitality of the European tigers

Schettkat, Ronald - In: Challenge 44 (2001) 1, pp. 35-55

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Structural revolution : the interaction of product and labor markets

Schettkat, Ronald - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 36 (2001) 1, pp. 34-43

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Small economy macroeconomics : the economic success of Ireland, Denmark, Austria and the Netherlands compared

Schettkat, Ronald - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 34 (1999) 4, pp. 159-170

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Institutions in the economic fitness landscape : what impact do welfare state institutions have on economic performance?

Schettkat, Ronald - 2002

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Institutions in the economic fitness landscape: What impact do welfare state institutions have on economic performance?

Schettkat, Ronald - 2002

This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the labour market both theoretically and empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state...

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