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Three Empirical Essays on the Long-Run Consequences of Early-Life Living Conditions
Neelsen, Sven - 2012
This study was prepared by Sven Neelsen while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in December 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2012. The study investigates long-run effects of...
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Griechenland: Eine Rettungsbilanz
Schrader, Klaus; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich - 2018
Die Autoren zeigen, dass Griechenland trotz des Abschlusses der über acht Jahre dauernden Rettungsprogramme und einer … Investoren zu verbessern und neues Vertrauen in den Standort Griechenland zu schaffen. … during the last years, Greece still faces serious economic problems. Even though the debt crisis was temporarily defused by a …
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Regulating the working conditions of platform work: What can we learn from EU member states?
Guinea, Oscar; Sisto, Elena; du Roy, Oscar - 2024
This Policy Brief offers a comprehensive evaluation and comparison of the regulatory frameworks governing platform work in four European countries. The comparative analysis draws upon research conducted by the OECD and the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the principles of good regulation. Adapting...
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Essays on International Trade and Development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Microeconometric Analyses on Economic Consequences of Selective Migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter …
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The effects of collective bargaining on firm performance: New evidence based on stochastic production frontiers and multiply imputed German establishment data
Jensen, Uwe; Rässler, Susanne - 2007
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on the effects of collective bargaining on the performance of German establishments. We include the analysis of firms' efficiency and we model productivity and efficiency simultaneously. Confronted with 25 % observations with missing values,...
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Labour supply and employment in the euro area countries - developments and challenges
Masuch, Klaus; Gómez-Salvador, Ramon; … - 2008
The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
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Forgotten or unpromising? The elusive phenomenon of under-aided countries, sectors and sub-national regions
Pietschmann, Elena - 2014
The existence of under-aided countries, sectors, and sub-national regions – also known as “aid orphans” – implies inefficiencies in the current overall allocation of aid resources. This is of particular concern because aid effectiveness depends not only on how well resources are...
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Kostnadseffektiviseringen til de norske bankene kan forklares med automatisering og digitalisering
Andersen, Henrik - 2020
Operating costs in the Norwegian banking sector have been reduced considerably in recent decades, both as a share of …, I analyse how costs have been reduced and the main drivers of the cost efficiency improvement. The results suggest that …
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