How immigration affects the labor market of the host country is a topic of major concern for many immigrant … impact of immigration on Spanish natives’ income by estimating the net immigration surplus accruing at the national level and … immigrant surplus amounts to 0.04 percent of GDP at the national level and it is even higher for some of the main immigrant …

patents per capita, holding across countries as well as US states, with and without controls. In this paper we turn to the …, broadly defined (e.g., attitudes toward science and technology, new versus old ideas, change, risk taking, personal agency … for all standard socio-demographics as well as country, year and denomination fixed effects. Across the fifty …

compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular … belief that French high income families with children face lower average tax rates than their German counterparts is true …, however not due to the French Family splitting but rather to the different definitions of taxable incomes in both countries …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low … protection and the funding of social policies through taxes and social security contributions in both countries. It shows if and … adaptability. This paper analyzes recent reforms in core areas such as active and passive labor market policies, employment …

' wages; they do so either directly, as when individuals vote in a salary committee, or indirectly, as when political parties …, via the myriad of social, economic, fiscal, and other policies, generate wages. The recommendations made by wage …-setters (or arising from their policies) form a distribution, and all the wage-setter-specific distributions are combined into a …

have ample liquidity, as is the case in many African countries. The model is tested using a sample of 20 African countries … over the period 2005-09. The empirical results suggest that policies aimed at easing the binding credit constraints (e …

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … the policies affecting the decision to migrate. The end of the first section provides an analysis of the emigration … characteristics, such as area of origin, sex, age, and location in the country. Special attention has been given to the illegality …

of these policy variables is such that changes in policies have at least the potential to undo the effect of variations … evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … for a larger menu of policies, institutions and structural characteristics of the economy than has been done so far, our …