Demand Patterns and Employment Growth: Consumption and Services in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States
The DEMPATEM project started in July 2001 and ended December 2003.
UPCOMING PUBLICATION
Mary Gregory, Wiemer Salverda and Ronald Schettkat, eds
Service Included? Services and the European-American Employment Gap
was published by Princeton University Press in May 2007.
The book brings together contributions by William Baumol, Richard Freeman, Victor Fuchs and Robert Gordon with the output of the DEMPATEM project (contributions by Blow, Deelen, Gardes, Glyn, Kalwij, Luengo-Prado, Machin, Möller, Russo, Ruiz-Castillo, Schmitt, Sollogoub, Starzec and the three editors).
A series of 13 working papers can be found here
A State-of-the-art Review “DEMPATEM in Perspective” is downloadable here
The main results were presented to an international audience at a
High-level Scientific Conference in Seville, Spain, 17-18 October 2003.
Click here for the program. Click here for the participants list.
Keynote speakers were Tony Atkinson, Robert Gordon and Richard Freeman.
The synopsis of the project can be viewed and downloaded here
The workplan can be viewed and downloaded here
The final report to the European Commission can be found here
Partners of the project were:
Co-ordinators
- “Wiemer SALVERDA ":http://www.uva-aias.net/lower.asp?id=64&lang=en
AIAS Amsterdams Institute for Advanced Labour Studies
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands - “Ronald SCHETTKAT ":http://www.wiwi.uni-wuppertal.de/Ronald_Sch.683.0.html
now at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, then at Utrecht University, Netherlands
Participating Researchers
- Laura BLOW
Institute for Fiscal Studies, London - François GARDES and Michel SOLLOGOUB
Théorie et Applications en Microéconomie et Macroéconomie TEAM, Université de Paris-I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France - Andrew GLYN
Department of Economics and Corpus Christi College
Oxford University, United Kingdom - Mary GREGORY
Department of Economics and St Hilda’s College
Oxford University, United Kingdom - Adriaan KALWIJ
Formerly Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies and Oxford University, recently University of Tilburg - Steve MACHIN
University College London and CEP Centre for Economic Performance, United Kingdom - Javier RUIZ-CASTILLO
Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain - María José LUENGO, Spain
Department of Economics, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain - Giovanni RUSSO, Marijke van DEELEN and Joep DAMEN
University of Utrecht, Netherlands - John SCHMITT
Economic Policy Institute Washington, United States - Joachim MÖLLER
Universität Regensburg, Germany
- For more information please contact:
Dr. Wiemer Salverda
Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies
Plantage Muidergracht 12
1018 TV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 525 4199 Fax: +31 20 525 4301