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Health and disability insurance
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 4, pp. 349-362
Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...
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Des einen Freund, des andern Feind: Israel und Iran im Maghreb. Wahrnehmung und Instrumentalisierung
Werenfels, Isabelle - 2024
Iran pflegen nur Algerien und Tunesien Beziehungen. Die systematische Auswertung von Texten aus Nachrichtenagenturen und …
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...
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ICT and Socio-Economic Exclusion
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2003
Using an innovative dataset for ICT use for five countries in Europe,we examine the impact and association of ICT on socio-economic exclusion.Using OLS regression we find significant wage premiums for PC and internet usage at the workplace.Following Dinardo/Fortin/Lemieux (1997),we examine the...
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Venture capital industries and policies: Some cross-country comparisons
Teubal, Morris; Luukkonen, Terttu - 2006
The paper summarizes the findings obtained during the first year of the Venture Fun project, carried out in an EU Network of Excellence PRIME and funded from the Sixth Framework Programme. The paper defines the central concepts of the project, identifies questions for further elaboration and...
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Smart choices for growth
Zachmann, Georg - 2012
Recovery in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain is held back in part by structural barriers. Overcoming these requires structural reform and public investment. Given the limited availability of political and financial capital, prioritising reform efforts and spending is important, but difficult....
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Testing for Parameter Stability in DSGE Models. The Cases of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain
Jerger, Jürgen; Röhe, Oke - 2012
We estimate a New Keynesian DSGE model on French, German, Italian, and Spanish data. The main aim of this paper is to check for the respective sets of parameters that are stable over time, making use of the ESS procedure ('Estimate of Set of Stable parameters') developed by Inoue and Rossi...
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Firm Investment and Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area
von Kalckreuth, Ulf; Hernando, Ignacio; Generale, Andrea; … - 2001
einzelwirtschaftlichen Investitionsverhaltens in den vier größten Ländern des Euro-Währungsraums (Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien und … Spanien). Bei unserer Untersuchung des Zinskanals und des Kreditkanals können wir auf ausgesprochen reiche Datensätze mit … das Investitionsverhalten. Allerdings reagieren nur in Italien kleine Firmen stärker auf Änderungen des cash flows als …
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Heterogeneous expectations, learning and European inflation dynamics
Weber, Anke - 2007
This paper is the first attempt to investigate the performance of different learning rules in fitting survey data of household and expert inflation expectations in five core European economies (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain). Overall it is found that constant gain learning...
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Lorenz meets rating but misses valuation
Camacho Cuena, Eva; Seidl, Christian - 2005
Using an experiment with material incentives, this paper investigates the violation of Lorenz relations in the case of dominant and single-crossing Lorenz curves. Our experimental design consists of two treatments: an income distribution treatment and a lottery treatment. Both treatments were...
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