root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors … descriptive statistics. Subsequently, we set out the possible mismatches between price level convergence and inflation rates … factors on observed inflation rates first in an accounting framework and then by relying on panel estimations. Our estimation …

entrepreneurship as a subject of research becomes even more complex. The increase in numbers of immigrants in most advanced economies …. More precisely, the self-employment structure of immigrants to Germany changed tremendously since the 1970s. For instance …, in the early 1970s only 40,000 immigrants were registered performing self-employment activities, and their businesses …

immigrants to the U.S. whose entry wages fall short of those of comparable natives because their human capital accumulated in … focused almost exclusively on male immigrants. Chapter Three extends the previous research to the population of female … immigrants by examining changes across cohorts in their labor market skills, as measured by their English proficiency …

confounding factors to explain differences in immigrants’ outcomes in the mortgage market. Using loan-level data from the Spanish …

Recent financial instability has called into question the sufficiency of low inflation as a goal for monetary policy …. Whether these now need re-examination, or whether a low inflation regime, in which the authorities stand ready to resort to …