In vielen europäischen Ländern lässt sich eine erhebliche geschlechtsspezifische Rentenlücke verzeichnen. Die Gender Pension Gaps variieren jedoch stark zwischen den Ländern. Diese länderübergreifende Studie analysiert, welche institutionellen und arbeitsmarktspezifischen Faktoren in einem Zusammenhang mit den Gender Pension Gaps stehen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Gender Pension Gaps tendenziell ...
In many European countries, there is a substantial gender pension gap. Yet, these gaps vary strongly across countries. This cross-national study examines to what extent institutional and labor market-specific factors correlate with gender pension gaps. The findings show that the gender pension gap tends to be larger in countries with larger gender-specific differences in the employment or part-time ...
This paper studies the experience of Europe's three most liberalised railways - Sweden, Germany and Britain - in opening-up rail passenger services to competition by means of competitive tendering, and seeks to draw lessons for countries that are just starting the process, such as France. It also comments on experience of competition in the market in these and other countries (this form of competition ...
The conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2014 led Western countries and Russia to impose economic sanctions on each other, including the euro zone members. The paper investigates the impact of the sanctions on the real side of the economies of Russia and the euro area. The effects of sanctions are analyzed with a structural vector autoregression. To pin down the effect we are interested ...
