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An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries.This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase therelative return of the...
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In der Vergangenheit führte die Globalisierung und Öffnung der Finanzmärkte zu größerer Kapital- und … Dienstleistungsfreiheit und zur De-Regulierung des Finanzsektors. In jüngster Zeit ist jedoch eine Trendumkehr von der De-Regulierung zur Re-Regulierung …
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Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...
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This paper tests whether the so-called ‘reach of the market’ helps to explain ‘why Europe’ and ‘why north …-western Europe’. By looking at grain markets from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century, this study concludes that the … neither a concomitant nor an effect of the Industrial Revolution, but indeed a plausible determinant for the rise of Europe …
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European cities like Rome, Helsinki and Dublin differ from one another by virtue ofregional architectonic peculiarities and individual problems caused by the social andeconomic changes each city is facing. “What they have in common is that theircharacter is determined by the model of the...
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In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined byindustry-level agreements. In addition, for some workers, industry agreements arecomplemented by firm-specific agreements. Yet, the relative importance of firm and industryagreements (in other words, the...
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Europäische Regierungen bedienen sich hauptsächlich dreier Maßnahmen, die sich explizitan die ArbeitgeberInnen wenden, damit diese ältere Arbeitslose einstellen. Es handelt sichdabei um Förderungen der Lohnkosten und allgemeine Zuschüsse einerseits, um Reduktionenvon...
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