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1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment … liberalising reforms on wages, while the employment effects of reforms differ markedly across age groups and partly depend on the …
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develop a suite of models to provide a more timely estimate (nowcast) of euro area quarterly employment growth based on a … timely assessment of employment developments with unemployment rates and sentiment indicators containing most of the relevant …
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investigate how employment decisions of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been affected by credit constraints in the … banks. Yet, findings also indicate that employment consequences of credit shortages have been essentially detrimental for …
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Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...
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demand shift. An interesting case study is the EU enlargement, which led to modernization of many sectors in eastern … and persistent unemployment compared to Estonia during the period of EU enlargement …
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adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees …. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important source of … explains around 50% of the stickiness of employment, adjustment costs explain the other 50% …
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impact of EU structural funds on employment drawing on a panel dataset of 130 European NUTS regions over the time period 1999 … mainly focused on investigating the Cohesion Policy's growth effects. This ignores the fact that part of the EU expenditures … is directly aimed at reducing disparities in the employment sector. Against this background, the paper analyses the …
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This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data … from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because … more exposed to external shocks. We assess the conditional employment volatility of firms with foreign and domestic owners …
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standard set of labour-market related variables (employment,real compensation, productivity and capital stock) and exogenous … negatively affects real compensation, has negligible employment effects and leads to higher labour productivity. These impacts … real compensation and employment. There is also evidence of positive spill-overs across industries from sector …
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This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmen-tal policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to which firms’ productivity can benefit from...
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