This report examines shifts in the pattern of production and employment between different countries and regions of Europe. Based on findings from a series of company case studies, it looks at the location of job creation and job destruction in multinational companies across the 25 EU Member...

Die Auswirkungen unseres Konsums sind weltweit spürbar: Die EU ist abhängig von der Einfuhr von Energie und Rohstoffen, und ein immer größerer Anteil der in Europa verbrauchten Produkte wird in anderen Teilen der Welt produziert. Nicht-nachhaltige Verbrauchs- und Produktionsmuster haben...

This report gives an overview of working conditions, job quality, workers’ health and job sustainability in the textiles and clothing sector (NACE13 and 14). It is based mostly on the fifth European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS), which gathers data on working conditions and the quality of...

The EURO-SOLAR Programme (Financing Agreement 2006/17-223) was designed in 2006 and implemented in eight Latin American countries as from 2007, focusing its activities in the poorest countries of the subcontinent (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay)....

This review of the strategic evaluations carried out on behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Co-operation and Development (DG DEVCO) is part of a DG DEVCO and European External Action Service (EEAS) exercise aimed at updating the European Consensus on...

The purpose of the evaluation is to provide a comprehensive and independent assessment of the European Union (EU)’s past and present cooperation in Ivory Coast, in order to draw key lessons and make recommendations for the future, including within the context of joint programming between the...

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a SVAR model some fiscal policy regimes, i.e. a u0094set of rulesu0094 for the implementation of fiscal policies. Second, we identify the fiscal policy shocks related to different...

This paper examine differences between risk-neutral and objective probability densities of future interest rates. The identification and quantification of these differences are important when risk-neutral densities (RNDs), such as option-implied RNDs, are used as indicators of actual beliefs of...