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other determinants of wages (prices, productivity, institutions) for the main euro area economies (Germany, France, Italy … the private sector (Germany and Spain) or pure public wage leadership (France in the sample 1991-2007, Italy for within …
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This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model in which the public and the private sector interact in the labor market. Previous studies that analyze the labor market effects of public sector employment and wages have mostly assumed exogenous rules for public wage and public employment....
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Radical labour market reforms were implemented in Germany between 2002 and 2005, reforms that overturned the received … idea that Germany was suffering from "reform paralysis". However, the part of these reforms that specifically concerned … controversial and changed the party-political landscape in Germany. Shortly after the reforms were introduced, a trend reversal took …
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We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...
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Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...
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A small labour market model for the six largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands …
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Policy attention to the security industry increased substantially after the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11th, 2001. With an increased demand for security, the global security market grew a tenfold to around €100 billion in 2011. Many studies expect that growth of the worldwide...
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Regulation, with a focus on six countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Mexico and the United States) where individual …
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, including within the context of joint programming between the EU, France, Germany and Spain. The scope of the study covers all …
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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, for West Germany, France, Italy and US, we econometrically select within a …
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