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We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries show substantial bonuses for married couples and four...
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The aim of this report, which has been prepared by a Task Force of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Eurosystem, is to describe and analyse the main developments in labour supply and its determinants in the euro area, review the links between labour supply and labour market institutions,...
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation … innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R&D intensity is …
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long time. In fact, these automation technologies arguably had their biggest employment impact generations ago, partially … explaining changes in employment structures in agricultural and manufacturing sectors that go back to the Industrial Revolution …. Thus, the potential employment effects of current robot technology are a priori limited. …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted an economic hardship unprecedented for the modern age. In this paper, we show that the health crisis and ensuing Great Lockdown, came with an unseen level of economic uncertainty. First, using a European dataset on country-level and regional internet searches,...
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We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous … relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not … innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to …
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Beschäftigungsformen und auf Lohndumping Neben dem Ausmaß der Immigration seit dem 1. Mai 2011 untersuchte das WIFO auch die Struktur und …
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In this paper we analyse the effect of immigration on the labour market prospects for different skill groups among … natives. We develop a model of endogenous labour supply in which immigration affects educational decisions of natives. We … argue that the distributional consequences of immigration with respect to native between-skill-group inequality are …
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