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Regional Aspects of Unemployment in Europe and in Italy

Schioppa, Padoa; Kostoris, Fiorella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Unemployment in Europe is a worrying phenomenon not so much because it hits 18 million people, but because it almost … unemployment rate. Thus, understanding the Italian unemployment and finding effective solutions for it, is useful to understand and …

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Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital

A'Hearn, Brian; Baten, Jörg; Crayen, Dorothee - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Age data frequently display excess frequencies at attractive numbers, such as multiples of five. We use this "age heaping" to measure cognitive ability in quantitative reasoning, or "numeracy". We construct a database of age heaping estimates with exceptional geographic and temporal coverage,...

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Local quality of government and migration. Evidence for European regions

Ketterer, Tobias; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this paper we investigate the impact of local quality of government on the attractiveness of European regions to migrants. The analysis is based on panel data estimations of 254 regions for the period between 1995 and 2009. Different instrumental variable techniques have been employed in...

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The Clan and the City: Sustaining Cooperation in China and Europe

Greif, Avner; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

advantage in pursuing collective actions. Moral groups perpetuate due to positive feedbacks between morality, institutions, and …

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Institutions and Economic Growth: Europe After World War II

Eichengreen, Barry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

economy, on the external side international agreements and supranational institutions -- that solved problems of commitment …

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The Rise and Decline of European Parliaments, 1188-1789

Bosker, Maarten; Buringh, Eltjo; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

. Active pre-1800 parliaments also enhanced the quality of democratic institutions in the nineteenth and early twentieth …

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Wages and Unemployment Half a Century on

Minford, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

The paper surveys recent analyses of rising unemployment in Europe based on the concept of the natural rate. It argues … efficiency wages, hysteresis, and insiders/outsiders are related to a core theory in which the unemployment benefit is the basic …, and that in its absence they would fail to explain unemployment. …

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The Macroeconomic Impact of Flexible Labour Contracts: An Application to Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

This paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects on employment of the introduction of flexible labour contracts (i.e. with low firing costs), which occurred in many European countries in the 1980s, which it then tests on Spanish data. The model predicts that such contracts increase...

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