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Negotiating and Mediating Brexit
Eidenmueller, Horst - 2017
The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Brexit will involve many complex negotiations. This paper analyses the negotiation position of the parties (UK, EU, Member States) based on a set of four key negotiation factors: agreement options, non-agreement alternatives, interests, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967753
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Employment Duration and Shifts into Retirement in the EU
Aranki, Ted; Macchiarelli, Corrado - European Institute, London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The decision to cease working is traditionally influenced by a wide set of socio-economic and environmental variables. In this paper, we study transitions out of work for 26 EU countries over the period 2004-2009 in order to investigate the determinants of retirement based on the Eurostat Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729211
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Employment duration and shifts into retirement in the EU
Aranki, Ted; Macchiarelli, Corrado - 2013
The decision to cease working is traditionally influenced by a wide set of socio-economic and environmental variables. In this paper, we study transitions out of work for 26 EU countries over the period 2004-2009 in order to investigate the determinants of retirement based on the Eurostat Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605562
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Government deficits in the European Union : an analysis of entry and exit dynamics
Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009
The extent of government deficits and debt has been one of the most debated issues in recent years. However, much less has been contributed about their dynamics. Yet, the issue of entering into and exiting from excessive deficits is critical in the Economic and Monetary Union since the Stability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857171
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Exploring the duration of EU imports
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - 2010
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, against the background of an existing empirical literature on the duration of trade which has found that international trade is often of strikingly short duration, we aim to establish whether or not EU imports from the rest of the world also are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008654167
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Exploring the long-term evolution of trade survival
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - 2011
Aiming to explore how the survival of trade flows has evolved over time, we analyze a rich data set of detailed imports to individual EU15 countries from 140 non-EU exporters, covering the period 1962-2006. We find that short duration is a persistent characteristic of trade throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269223
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The war in Europe : economic costs of the Ukrainian conflict
Bluszcz, Julia; Valente, Marica - 2019
With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005303
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International Commercial Arbitration in the EU and the PRC : A Tale of Two Continents or 28 plus 3 Legal Systems
Esplugues, Carlos - 2014
A first approach to the attitude maintained in the EU and the People’s Re-public of China (PRC) towards alternative dispute resolution (ADR) displays similitudes regarding the support that this movement receives in both places. However, and standing on this common acceptance, a deeper analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144661
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Assessing the legal value added of collective bargaining agreements
Martins, Pedro S.; Saraiva, Joana - 2019
How much value does collective bargaining add to the working conditions already established in general labour law? In … as 62% of those collective bargaining norms are exactly or virtually equal to the Labour Code; only 25% (an average of 16 … collective bargaining in Portugal has a relatively small role as a source of effective labour law. We also present several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145464
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Firm-level pay agreements and within-firm wage inequalities : evidence across Europe
Cirillo, Valeria; Sostero, Matteo; Tamagni, Federico - 2019
This article investigates the relation linking single-employer bargaining and within-firm wage dispersion - a … Czech Republic and the UK), featuring different collective bargaining institutions, in 2006 and 2010. We examine two … managers vs. low-layer employees) may differently benefit or lose from firm-level bargaining. Our findings show that firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007041