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Dieser Bericht untersucht die spezifischen Merkmale des sozialen Dialogs in Kleinst- und Kleinunternehmen in der EU, wobei er sich insbesondere auf Tarifverhandlungsverfahren und Arbeitnehmerbeteiligung im Bereich von Gesundheitsschutz und Sicherheit am Arbeitsplatz konzentriert. Darüber hinaus...
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Micro and small companies constitute the backbone of private business in Europe, accounting for nearly 99% of all enterprises, more than half of total employment in the private sector and an even greater proportion of new jobs. Despite their crucial place in the economy, there has been little...
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comparisons between countries as diverse as Brazil, China, Japan and the USA it is necessary to take into account the …
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How to overcome shortcomings of the available comparative data on student mobility in Europe? Currently, inward student mobility in the EU Member States is measured by means of the criterion foreign citizenship. In the wake of changing social realities in Europe, however, foreign citizenship is...
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This study explores the extent to which European students experience financial and other barriers to participation in …, with the exception of financial issues, which are an important concern for students everywhere. ERASMUS participation is … associated with students’ socio-economic background, primarily influenced by individual preferences and cost …
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Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...
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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...
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There has been much discussion of the differences in macroeconomic performance and prospects between the US, Japan and the euro area. Using Markov-switching techniques, in this paper we identify and compare specifically their major business-cycle features and examine the case for a common...
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This paper offers an alternative explanation for the behavior of postwar US inflation by measuring a novel source of monetary policy time-inconsistency due to Cukierman (2002). In the presence of asymmetric preferences, the monetary authorities end up generating a systematic inflation bias...
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the recoverable structure. As an application of our method we estimate the parameters of a model of the USA monetary …
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