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Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing industries) in 25 EU countries over the period from 1995 to 2005. By applying a cross-country and industry-specific approach, it is possible to control for unobserved heterogeneity at...

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Wage structure effects of international trade

Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011

In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...

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Foreign direct investment and international business cycle comovement

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C. J. - 2004

This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...

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Gross job flows and institutions in Europe

Gómez-Salvador, Ramón; Messina, Julián; Vallanti, … - 2004

We examine job flows in the 1990s for a sample of 13 European countries. By using a dataset of continuing firms that covers all sectors, we find firm characteristics to be important determinants of job flows, with smaller and younger firms within services typically having a larger degree of job...

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Did the pattern of aggregate employment growth change in the euro area in the late 1990s?

Mourre, Gilles - 2004

The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact...

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An analysis of systemic risk in alternative securities settlement architectures

Iori, Giulia - 2004

This paper compares securities settlement gross and netting architectures. It studies settlement risk arising from exogenous operational delays and compares settlement failures between the two architectures as functions of the length of the settlement interval under different market conditions....

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In dubio pro CES

León-Ledesma, Miguel A.; McAdam, Peter; Willman, Alpo - 2010

Capital-labor substitution and total factor productivity (TFP) estimates are essential features of growth and income … estimation of the substitution elasticity can be substantially biased if the form of technical progress is misspecified. For some … Constant Elasticity of Substitution production function is then estimated within a “normalized” system approach for the US …

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Gender pay differences om the European Union: Do higher wages make up for discrimination?

Canton, Erik - 2009

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Human capital externalities and proximity evidence from repeated cross-sectional data

Canton, Erik - 2009

Does schooling generate social returns in excess of the private returns captured by the individual who makes the human capital investment? As a strategy to detect human capital externalities I use Dutch survey data to estimate the impact of the average human capital stock in a region on...

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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996 - 2002

Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - 2010

Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys we find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education which accrued only to male workers. The positive effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages...

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