Filipinas at Copenhagen Hotels 1970s-1990s: The European 'Guest Worker' Era Revisited

Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents

Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare difference...

Change in European Societies since the 1970s

Dynamic pricing strategies: Evidence from European hotels

How much do hoteliers actually make use of dynamic pricing strategies? We collected data on the price of a single room booked in advance (from three months to a single day), from almost 1000 hotels in eight European capital cities. Pricing strategies were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, box plots and econometric panel data techniques. The empirical results show that the inter-tempo...

Guest editorial: vulnerability revisited.

Lady Bertram . . . had been a beauty . . . all her life; and beauty and wealth were all that excited her respect. To know Fanny to be sought in marriage by a man of fortune raised her. . . very much in her opinion. . . . ‘‘Well, Fanny, I have had a very agreeable surprise this morning. I must just speak of it once. . . . I give you joy [i.e., congratulations], my dear niece.’’ . . . Fanny colou...

Hotels Pricing at Travel

Web 2.0 applications have been increasingly recognized as important information sources for consumers, including the domain of tourism. In the center of the travelers’ interest is the use of these applications in order to compare and choose hotels for their accommodation at various tourism destinations. It is important to investigate the issues related to the presence of the hotels on some of t...