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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending

Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...

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The right amount of trust

Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2009

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...

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Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries : Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2005

varies considerably in Europe, ranging from 84 per cent in Denmark to 11 per cent in Portugal. Estimating identical models …

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Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2000

We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is important to evaluate private returns to education over the working life of individuals. We find...

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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the standard result that training incidence is higher among individuals with more education, I find...

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Unemployment, Education and Earnings Growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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For one more year with you: changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - 2007

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...

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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007

In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...

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Assimilation and integration of immigrants in Europe

Aleksynska, Mariya; Algan, Yann - 2010

This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in European destinations along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions, distinguishing by immigrants' generation, duration of stay, and origin. Based on the European Social Survey, it suggests that assimilation may have multiple facets, and take...

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe: the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie E. - 2006

sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in … the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is key to … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

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