Title:Skills and Recruitment in Flexible Work Settings
Author(s):APITZSCH, BirgitDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Over recent decades, we have witnessed profound changes in labour markets with an increase in flexible forms of work and employment, driven by organizational restructuring and institutional change at the macro- and at the ...
Title:Skills, Search and the Persistence of High Unemployment
Author(s):ORTIGUEIRA, SalvadorDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The persistence of high-unemployment rates in Europe has fueled theories advocating the existence of multiple natural rates of unemployment. Labor-market institutions and increasing returns to scale have been singled out ...
Title:Slave Stories: Gender, Representation, and the Court in the Danish West Indies, 1780's-1820s
Author(s):SIMONSEN, GunvorDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This study examines conceptions about money, its value, and management in the works of Islamic and Christian scholars in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean from a comparative perspective. By including both ...
Title:Slow Money Dissemination
Author(s):ENDERS, ZenoDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A model of limited participation in the asset market is developed, in which varieties of
consumption bundles are purchased sequentially. By this, heterogeneity in money holdings and in
the effective elasticity of ...
Title:The Small Arms Judgment in an Age of Constitutional Turmoil
Author(s):VAN VOOREN, BartDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:On 20 May 2008, the Court of Justice handed down its long-awaited judgment in the Small Arms case (C-91/05). In a previous contribution in this review I have argued that from the perspective of the current post-Nice Treaty ...
Title:Small Changes, Big Results: Legislative voting behavior in the presence of new voters
Author(s):BERTELLI, Anthony M.; CARSON, Jamie L.Date:2011Type of Publication:ArticleSeries/Report no.:[EUDO Public Opinion Observatory]Abstract:Changes in district boundaries in small magnitude electoral systems can have substantive consequences for representation. In the U.S., each decennial redistricting cycle infuses House districts with a large number of new ...
Title:A Small Monetary System for the Euro Area Based on German Data
Author(s):BRUEGGEMANN, Ralf; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Previous euro area money demand studies have used aggregated national time series data from the countries participating in the European Monetary Union (EMU). However, aggregation may be problematic because macroeconomic ...
Title:Small Parties: From Party Pledges to Government Policy
Author(s):BOLLEYER, NicoleDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:When estimating a party's capacity for goal co-ordination, scholars need not only consider contextual constraints but also the party's properties, since these directly affect its strategic choices. For small parties which ...
Title:Small States and New Norms of Warfare
Author(s):PETROVA, Margarita H.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper focuses on the influence of small states on the development of new international norms regulating the conduct of warfare. It examines the role of two small European states – Belgium and Norway – in two cases of ...