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Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...
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the international transmission of productivity improvements generate the observed degree of risk-sharing: one associated …
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We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries …. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences … in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD countries. It finds that GDP per capita, the size of the government …
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) in relation to employment and unemployment. The text includes a description of Estonia labour market institutions as well … subsequent economic crisis. The aim of the text is to describe changes in the field of employment and unemployment, as well as … as the steps that have been taken as part of active and passive employment policies. In particular, we have focused on …
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implementation of the programme to elucidate its multiple impact on fundamental social and employment issues. Alongside economic …
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Italy's problems are primarily structural; the current government is thus exploring more radical reform programmes, such as labour market reform and liberalisation. Compliance with the measures introduced towards achieving a balanced budget and reducing the public debt is a prerequisite to...
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For the European institutions, the "Great Recession" officially began in March 2008, when the word "crisis" first …
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the downturn upon employment has yet to materialise. Eurofound’s analysis of restructuring and job loss over the past year … of the recession upon employment, it also looks in detail how particular sectors, countries and occupations have been … affected, and examines a range of responses that have been taken to safeguard employment - at the company, Member State and …
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the euro zone single-currency crisis in 2010–2011. In the last year, aggregate employment levels have risen faster than at … any time since 2008. This, the fourth annual European Jobs Monitor report, looks in detail at shifts in the employment …
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, skill level, permanent and temporary employment, occupation and economic sector), examining in particular how tenure evolved …-term employment relationships, analyses controlling for certain sociodemographic and job characteristics provided some evidence of an …
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