scholarly journals The China Shock, Employment Protection, and European Jobs

ILR Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 001979392110522
Author(s):  
Hedieh Aghelmaleki ◽  
Ronald Bachmann ◽  
Joel Stiebale
Keyword(s):  
Job Loss ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Import Competition ◽  
Worker Flows ◽  
Level Data

The authors investigate the effects of Chinese import competition on transitions into and out of employment using comparable worker-level data for 14 European countries. Results indicate that, on average, Chinese imports are associated with an increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to employment. In countries with high levels of employment protection, incumbent workers are shielded against the risk of job loss due to Chinese competition, but unemployed workers’ prospects seem to be particularly negatively affected in these countries. The authors also provide evidence that the effects of increased Chinese imports differ by worker groups and the tasks performed on the job.

Insider or Outsider? Grand Corruption and Electoral Accountability

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Bauhr ◽  
Nicholas Charron
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Political Corruption ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Democratic Accountability ◽  
Electoral Accountability ◽  
Level Data

While democratic accountability is widely expected to reduce corruption, citizens to a surprisingly large extent opt to forgo their right to protest and voice complaints, and refrain from using their electoral right to punish corrupt politicians. This article examines how grand corruption and elite collusion influence electoral accountability, in particular citizens’ willingness to punish corrupt incumbents. Using new regional-level data across 21 European countries, we provide clear empirical evidence that the level of societal grand corruption in which a voter finds herself systematically affects how she responds to a political corruption scandal. Grand corruption increases loyalty to corrupt politicians, demobilizes the citizenry, and crafts a deep divide between insiders, or potential beneficiaries of the system, and outsiders, left on the sidelines of the distribution of benefits. This explains why outsiders fail to channel their discontent into effective electoral punishment, and thereby how corruption undermines democratic accountability.

scholarly journals HOW WELL DO DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS FOR APPENDECTOMY EXPLAIN VARIATIONS IN RESOURCE USE? AN ANALYSIS OF PATIENT-LEVEL DATA FROM 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 30-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Mason ◽  
Zeynep Or ◽  
Thomas Renaud ◽  
Andrew Street ◽  
Josselin Thuilliez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Diagnosis Related Groups ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Patient Level Data ◽  
Patient Level ◽  
Level Data

scholarly journals Productivity Growth and Value Chains in Four European Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabela Karpowicz ◽  
Nujin Suphaphiphat
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Trade Integration ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Workforce Aging ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four closely integrated European countries, Austria, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, based on firm-level data. Participation in global value chains appears to have affected productivity positively, including through its effect on TFP when facilitated by higher investment in intangible assets, a proxy for firm innovation. Other contributors to productivity growth in firms are workforce aging, access to finance, and skills mismatches.

scholarly journals Wage response to global production links: evidence for workers from 28 European countries (2005–2014)

2020 ◽  
Vol 156 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-801
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Parteka ◽  
Joanna Wolszczak-Derlacz
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
High Income ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Occupational Task ◽  
Backward Linkages ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Country Specific

Abstract Using rich individual level data on workers from 28 European countries, this study provides the first so extensive cross-country assessment of wage response to global production links within GVC in the period 2005–2014. Unlike the other studies, the authors (i) address the importance of backward linkages in globally integrated production structures (capturing imports of goods and services needed in any stage of the production of the final product); (ii) measure occupational task profile of workers with country-specific indices of routinisation; (iii) compare the impact of global production links on wages between workers from Western, Central-Eastern and Southern Europe; employed in manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors; (iv) account for direct and indirect dependence on GVC imports from developing and high income countries. The study takes into account the potential endogeneity issues. The  results suggest that global import intensity of production exhibits negative pressure on wages in Europe. This effect concerns mainly workers from Western Europe employed in manufacturing and is driven by production links with non-high income countries but our counterfactual estimates suggest that the effect is economically small.

Investigations by Glass Sensors on the Corrosive Environmental Conditions at Stained Glass Windows with Protective Glazings in Europe

1992 ◽  
Vol 267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Leissner ◽  
Dieter R. Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Protective Effect ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Total Stress ◽  
Protective Properties ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Different Types

At 15 prominent churches and cathedrals in 7 European countries the environmental corrosive stresses at the stained glass windows were assessed by glass sensors. Special emphasis was given to the protective properties of different types of protective glazings. The obtained total stress level data, based on MI-glass sensor measurements, help to conclude on the appropriate choice of the ventilation systems and give information about specific environmental impacts. The results indicate that internally ventilated protective glazings have a higher protective effect than externally ventilated systems. The nonventilated type of protective glazing even raised the corrosive stresses for the stained glass windows.

scholarly journals COVID-19 European regional tracker

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asjad Naqvi
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
National Level ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
European Regional

AbstractThis Tracker presents data on daily COVID-19 cases at the sub-national level for 26 European countries from January 2020 till present. Country-level data sources are identified and processed to form a homogenized panel at the NUTS 3 or NUTS 2 level, the two lowest standardized administrative units in Europe. The strengths and weaknesses of each country dataset are discussed in detail. The raw data, spatial layers, the code, and the final homogenized files are provided in an online repository for replication. The data highlights the spatial distribution of cases both within and across countries that can be utilized for a disaggregated analysis on the impacts of the pandemic. The Tracker is updated monthly to expand its coverage.

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