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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons ; the European unemployment problem
Solow, Robert - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 3-5
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013167
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European Unemployment: Labour Market Institutions and Economic Turbulence
Ljungqvist, Lars - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 07-12
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008594376
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Europe's unemployment : no policy issue, a policy issue for Europe or for member states or for both? ; the European unemployment problem
Steinherr, Alfred - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 6-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998619
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The European Labour Markets - The Search for Routes to Better Economic Performance in Continental Europe
Zoega, Gylfi; Phelps, Edmund - In: CESifo Forum 5 (2004) 1, pp. 3-11
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Inclusive Growth: What Future for the European Social Model?
Schmid, Günther - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
empirical sketch on to what extent Europe has already succeeded with respect to this ambitious goal. The result is quite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884390
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The sex differential in mortality: a historical comparison of the adult-age pattern of the ratio and the difference
Wisser, Oliver; Vaupel, James W. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2014
The ratio (RMR) is the standard measure of sex differentials in mortality. It is commonly known that the RMR was historically small and increased throughout the 20th century. However, numerical properties might account for the trend in the RMR rather than sex differences in risk factors. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851054
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Are Non-Euro Area EU Countries Importing Low Inflation from the Euro Area?
Iossifov, Plamen; Podpiera, Jiri - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
The synchronized disinflation across Europe since end-2011 raises the question of whether non-euro area EU countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959481
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Is employment of social risk groups the key to sustaining the European welfare regimes?
Josifidis, Kosta; Supic, Novica; Pucar, Emilija Beker; … - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 623-640
The European welfare regimes face two sets of challenges. One internal, specific for the welfare state itself, and the other external, imposed by changing economic, political and economics conditions. The first challenge lies in the growing gap between the rigid welfare state design and flexible...
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Estimating efficiency and productivity change in European retail sector (1998–2006)
Moreno, Justo de Jorge - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 4, pp. 412-436
In this paper, we use recent robust non-parametric techniques in the European retail sector. By means of a database of firms in the European retail sector (four-digit NACE 5211) in five European countries over the period 1998–2006, we apply data envelopment analysis and compare the analysis...
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Sweden: Combining childbearing and gender equality
Oláh, Livia Sz.; Bernhardt, Eva - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 28, pp. 1105-1144
Sweden is the forerunner of the Second Demographic Transition. Fertility trends have fluctuated greatly since the 1960s …, and the 1990s showed both European-highest and lowest-ever-in-Sweden levels, while the cohort pattern has been relatively … having a ‘foreign background’ in the early 2000s. The level of female labor-force participation is the highest in Europe …
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