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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …

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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?

Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005

model does not support the view expressed by Davis (1998) that global equilibrium links insulate the US labor market from …

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The obesity epidemic in Europe

Sanz de Galdeano, Anna (contributor) - 2005

This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...

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The effectiveness of European active labor market policy

Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006

Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation … than contextual factors such as labor market institutions or the business cycle, it is almost exclusively the program type … Market Policy ; program evaluation ; meta analysis …

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...

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Female labor market transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year … different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these … countries, women's determinants of labor market transitions are compared by means of pooled multinominal logit-regressions. The …

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The wage effects of social norms : evidence of deviations from peers' body-mass in Europe

Fahr, René (contributor) - 2006

"We investigate wage effects of deviations from peer group body mass index (BMI) to evaluate the influence of social norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity effects associated with deviations from a clinically...

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Residential mobility and housing adjustment of older households in Europe

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of residential mobility of older households (above 50 years old) and the adjustment of housing for those who move employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel. Although homeowners are less likely to move compared to renters, an...

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Equality of opportunity and redistribution in Europe

Dunnzlaff, Lina; Neumann, Dirk; Niehues, Judith; … - 2010

The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while holding them responsible for turning that access into actual advantage by the application of...

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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which...

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