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  1. Content type: Original article

    This study investigates whether working time accounts affect the performance of German establishments based on the Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research. The major results are: product...

    Authors: Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:24

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  2. Content type: Original article

    The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled ...

    Authors: Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Hillel Rapoport

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:23

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  6. Content type: Original article

    Using harmonised micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on indivi...

    Authors: Ronald Bachmann, Peggy Bechara, Anica Kramer and Sylvi Rzepka

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:19

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  8. Content type: Original article

    This paper aims to investigate the effects of the introduction of an active welfare state measure in France, the Revenu de Solidarité Active, which replaced the old system of social minima. By using a micro–ma...

    Authors: Luciano Canova, Luca Piccoli and Amedeo Spadaro

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:17

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  10. Content type: ORIGINAL ARTICLE

    We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components—real wages, capital intensi...

    Authors: Javier Ordóñez, Hector Sala and José I Silva

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:15

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  11. Content type: Original article

    This paper uses pseudo panel techniques and a fixed effects estimator to analyse the determinants of preferences for redistribution in 34 European countries over the period 2002–2012. The data is drawn from th...

    Authors: Javier Olivera

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:14

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  13. Content type: Original article

    The purpose of this paper is to assess the determinants of female labour supply in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). To account for selection problems, a special type of grouping estimat...

    Authors: Eva Schlenker

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:12

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  16. Content type: Original article

    This paper assesses the impact the Great Recession had on individuals’ transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined between 2006 and 2011, wh...

    Authors: Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly and Seamus McGuinness

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:9

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  18. Content type: Original article

    We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of the 17 Spanish regions started doing and publishing the results of standardized tests in ...

    Authors: Brindusa Anghel, Antonio Cabrales, Jorge Sainz and Ismael Sanz

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:7

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  21. Content type: Original article

    We use the labor force ad hoc module “transition from work into retirement” to analyze the link between individual as well as pension system characteristics and planned retirement age within the European Union...

    Authors: Monika Riedel, Helmut Hofer and Birgit Wögerbauer

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:4

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  22. Content type: Original article

    A historically high level of youth unemployment presents Greece with a huge social and economic challenge. This paper analyses various dimensions of this challenge. We argue that though the conventional defini...

    Authors: David NF Bell and David G Blanchflower

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015 4:1

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  24. Content type: Original article

    In contrast to previous results combining all ages, we find positive effects of comparison income on happiness for the under 45s and negative effects for those over 45. In the UK, these coefficients are several t...

    Authors: Felix R FitzRoy, Michael A Nolan, Max F Steinhardt and David Ulph

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2014 3:24

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  25. Content type: Original article

    Wage inequality in Portugal has increased over the last thirty years, with two distinct periods. The period from 1984 to the mid-90s witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A short...

    Authors: Mário Centeno and Álvaro A Novo

    Citation: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2014 3:23

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  • ISSN: 2193-9012

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