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Ehlers, Anja; Naegele, Gerhard; Reichert, Monika - 2009

Europe is undergoing a previously unwitnessed ageing of the population. In view of this, social inclusion of the elderly and strategies to promote voluntary work among older people are now important items on the EU’s political agenda. This report is based on 30 case studies from 11 Member...

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Statistics on student mobility within the European Union

Teichler, Ulrich - 2003

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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Improving the Participation in the ERASMUS Programme

Vossensteyn, Hans; Beerkens, Maarja - 2010

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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Bank fees behaviour study : Final report

TNS - 2012

The markets for bank accounts across the EU differ considerably among Member States, i.e. they are still fragmented along national lines and there is limited integration across different Member States. But even within national markets, there is evidence of major obstacles to consumer choice and...

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US, Japan and the euro area

McAdam, Peter - 2003

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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Comparing economic dynamics in the EU and CEE accession countries

Süppel, Ralph - 2003

This paper presents evidence for structural differences in economic growth dynamics between the current EU and the central- and eastern European accession countries. Two important results emerge from the analysis. First, accession countries have posted higher average growth and wider output...

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Bond market inflation expectations and longer-term trends in broad monetary growth and inflation in industrial countries, 1880 - 2001

Dewald, William G. - 2003

u0093Bond Market Inflation Expectation and Longer-term Trends in Broad Monetary Growth and Inflation in Industrial Countries, 1880-2001u0094 by William G. Dewald, Professor of Economics Emeritus, Ohio State University and Former Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Annual...

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an international comparison

Afonso, António; Schuknecht, Ludger; Tanzi, Vito - 2003

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub-indicators, for 23 industrialised countries. The first four sub-indicators are u0093opportunityu0094 indicators that take into account administrative, education and health outcomes...

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Unemployment, hysteresis and transition

León-Ledesma, Miguel; McAdam, Peter - 2003

We quantify the degree of persistence in unemployment rates of transition countries using a variety of methods benchmarked against the EU. In part of the paper, we work with the concept of linear u0093Hysteresisu0094 as described by the presence of unit roots in unemployment. Since this is...

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Gross job flows and institutions in Europe

Gómez-Salvador, Ramón; Messina, Julián; Vallanti, … - 2004

We examine job flows in the 1990s for a sample of 13 European countries. By using a dataset of continuing firms that covers all sectors, we find firm characteristics to be important determinants of job flows, with smaller and younger firms within services typically having a larger degree of job...

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