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Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
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, and the Euro/financial crisis in 2008-2009, which was followed by a general and intensive reform process in the years … reforms are not effective enough to solve the youth unemployment problem across Europe. We point to educational policies that …
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Europe than in the West, except for Ireland, the UK and Austria. Between 2004 and 2009, no cases found when unemployment and … dependent informality rates in a country went up together, suggesting that work without contract is pro-cyclical in Europe … equal. In Southern and Western Europe, immigrants from CEE and FSU feature the highest dependent informality rate, whilst in …
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focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and …
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This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions...
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to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older …, given that Europe faces rising unemployment, growing numbers of unassimilated migrants, and more pensioners - and all in the … crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe …
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We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …
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The aim of this discussion paper is not only to activate a debate over the interrelation between rising income inequality and economic policy measures but also to initiate comparative research in several European countries and North America. It discusses the consequences of a rising income...
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Is the Chinese growth miracle - a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over two decades - likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policies that have boosted growth? For all its presumed flaws, the particular approach to macroeconomic and structural...
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Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably …
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