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Energy sector : E.ON, Germany
Oxford Research A/S - 2008
E.ON is one of the largest investor-owned energy providers in the world. The company delivers energy to millions of customers and, together with EDF, is the biggest energy supplier in Europe. Employing more than 80,000 people, E.ON also has the duty to establish favourable working conditions for...
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Second Quality of Work Survey reveals decline in working conditions
Giaccone, Mario - 2008
The preliminary results of the second Quality of Work in Italy Survey, carried out in 2006 by the National Training Agency, show that working conditions have tended to decline since the 2002 survey, although overall job satisfaction is still high. Italian workers seem to be less satisfied with...
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Women in developing countries : Report
TNS Political & Social - 2013
Published on International Women's Day 2013, this survey presents the views of European citizens on gender equality and the empowerment of women in developing countries. It also tests how people believe to what extent certain problems affect men and women in these countries.
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Löhne in Europa im 21. Jahrhundert : Zusammenfassung
Europäische Stiftung zur Verbesserung der Lebens- und … - 2014
Tarifverhandlungssysteme dargestellt und erörtert sowie die Verbindung zwischen Lohn- und Produktivitätsentwicklungen (in Bezug auf nominale …
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Pay in Europe in the 21st century
Aumayr-Pintar, Christine; Cabrita, Jorge; … - 2014
The issue of wages has attracted particular attention at European level since the onset of the economic crisis. Changes … in economic governance, notably within the European semester, have prompted discussions on wage‑setting mechanisms. While …, overall, wage‑bargaining regimes have remained relatively stable over time in many countries, the most substantial changes …
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Pay in Europe in different wage-bargaining regimes
Speckesser, Stefan; Nafilyan, Vahé; Ledermaier, Stefanie - 2015
National wage-bargaining institutions are crucial in achieving pay outcomes that help to increase employment and …, this report analyses how the institutional features of national wage bargaining regimes influence pay outcomes. These … features include bargaining level, type and level of coordination, use of opening clauses and the existence of wage pacts. The …
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Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan
Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - 2003
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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Identifying fiscal shocks and policy regimes in OECD countries
Arcangelis, Giuseppe de; Lamartina, Serena - 2003
France, the strongest ex0Bect on output is produced by shocks on government expenditure on wages and transfers. …
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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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Measuring the time-inconsistency of US monetary policy
Surico, Paolo - 2003
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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