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The Employment Effects of Working Time Reductions : Sector-Level Evidence from European Reforms

Batut, Cyprien; Garnero, Andrea; Tondini, Alessandro - 2022

In this paper, we exploit a panel of industry-level data in European countries to study the economic impact of national reductions in usual weekly working hours between 1995 and 2007. Our identification strategy relies on the five national reforms that took place over this period and on initial...

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International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market

Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output...

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The Over-Education Wage Penalty Among Phd Holders : A European Perspective

Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022

holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …

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Second-Generation Immigrants and Native Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe

Barrera, Oscar; Bensidoun, Isabelle; Edo, Anthony - 2022

This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely...

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De-Facto Gaps in Social Protection for Standard and Non-Standard Workers : An Approach for Monitoring the Accessibility and Levels of Income Support

Immervoll, Herwig; Fernández, Rodrigo; Hyee, Raphaela; … - 2022

Social protection systems play a key stabilising role for individuals and societies, especially in the recent context of heightened uncertainties. Income stabilisation and related social policy objectives hinge on the extent to which social protection is accessible for those requiring support....

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What's Across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects

Jha, Priyaranjan; Neumark, David; Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2022

Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010) argue that state-level minimum wage variation can be correlated with economic shocks, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs that share a state border, they find no...

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Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022

We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...

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The EU Anchor Thesis : Transition from Socialism, the Institutional Vacuum and Membership in the European Union

Campos, Nauro - 2022

Eastern European and Former Soviet Union countries diverged massively. Institutions are a main reason. The EU anchor thesis … posits that the prospect of membership in the European Union (EU) played a key role in filling in the institutional vacuum …, focusing on whether the prospect of EU membership accelerated institutional development and, if so, whether this was indeed …

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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the Us

Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2022

The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...

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Institutional Integration and Productivity Growth : Evidence from the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2022

European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one â Norway â did not join the EU …

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