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The Efficiency of Social Expenditures in the Fight against Extreme Poverty in Europe [Die Effizienz Der Sozialausgaben Im Kampf Gegen Extreme Armut in Europa]
Tausch, Arno - 2009
-off between social expenditures per capita and absolute poverty from recent EU-Commission and UNDP data (% of the population below … 10 Euros, 5 Euros, and 13 Dollars a day, as well as % of the population dying before age 60). Among the older EU-15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214679
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Real income convergence between Central Eastern and Western Europe : past, present, and prospects : paper presented at the 33rd CIRET (Centre for International Research on Economic Tendency Surveys), Conference on Economic Tendency Surveys and Economic Policy, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 14 - September 17, 2016
Matkowski, Zbigniew; Prochniak, Mariusz; Rapacki, Ryszard - 2016
joined the European Union (EU11) and 15 countries of Western Europe (EU15) in the period 1993-2015. The evolution of the … 2000-2007, just before and after the EU's major enlargement. This suggests that the increasing economic integration … average GDP per capita level seen in Western Europe. The third scenario, based on a long-term economic forecast for the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548764
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Why Europe Has to Offer a Better Deal Towards its Muslim Communities : A Quantitative Analysis of Open International Data
Tausch, Arno; Bischof, Christian; Kastrun, Tomaz; … - 2008
While there is a never-ending debate on Islamism, Islamist terrorism and the identity of Europe vis-à-vis growing Muslim communities in Europe, there are hardly any solid cross-national data being presented on the real extent of the Islamist threat facing Europe, and on the social conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051923
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Changing language skills and trade in Europe
Rindler, Michael - 2021
I investigate the effect of changing language skills on trade using an unique panel data set on spoken language. It tracks over thirty, mostly European, countries from the mid-90s to the beginning of the 2010s. In this period, European countries have witnessed an advancing trade integration and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342071
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Topography, borders, and trade across Europe
Frensch, Richard; Fidrmuc, Jarko; Rindler, Michael - 2021
The gravity literature has focused on distance, borders and contiguity to measure geography's impact on trade. We add value to this literature in terms of data, method and assessment of effects. First, we expand existing geographical databases by adding topographical features. We supply novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668870
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The Wage Premium of Foreign Ownership: Evidence from European Mergers and Acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-21, pp. 1-27
The authors provide evidence on the impact of foreign ownership on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically owned firms. For this purpose, they use firm-level data from 16 European countries over the time period 19992006. Combing propensity score...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309046
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The Wage Premium of Globalization : Evidence from European Mergers and Acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald - 2012
We provide evidence on the impact of globalization on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically-owned firms. For this purpose, we use firm level data from 16 European countries over the time period 1999-2006. Applying propensity score matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111673
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The wage premium of foreign ownership : evidence from European mergers and acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - 2012
The authors provide evidence on the impact of foreign ownership on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically owned firms. For this purpose, they use firm-level data from 16 European countries over the time period 19992006. Combing propensity score...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009544359
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The wage premium of globalization : evidence from European mergers and acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - 2012
We provide evidence on the impact of globalization on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically-owned firms. For this purpose, we use firm level data from 16 European countries over the time period 1999-2006. Applying propensity score matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009411931
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The wage premium of globalization : evidence from European mergers and acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - 2012
We provide evidence on the impact of globalization on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically-owned firms. For this purpose, we use firm level data from 16 European countries over the time period 1999 to 2006. Applying propensity score matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731061