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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
Loughrey, Jason; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a Linear Expenditure System (LES) and an equity component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024603
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Primum vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment
Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic view on the ability of the adjustment mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814464
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Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions
Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neoclassical tradition. In the typical neoclassical models, spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761820
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Does Distance Determine Who Attends a University in Germany?
Spiess, C. Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703446
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Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine heterogeneity of returns across British regions using the Labour Force Survey. We find substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822928
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Still Searching for the Wage Curve: Evidence from Germany and Italy
Ammermueller, Andreas; Lucifora, Claudio; Origo, Federica; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups …. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and … Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group considered. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763564
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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763702
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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
Berger, Mark C.; Blomquist, Glenn C.; Peter, Klara … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) augmented by city and regional-specific characteristics from other sources. While Russia is undergoing transition to a market economy, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763711
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Car Ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities
Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700909
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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
Kline, Patrick; Moretti, Enrico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...
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