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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...

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Can higher employment levels bring lower poverty in the EU? : regression based simulations of the Europe 2020 target

Marx, Ive; Vandenbroucke, Pieter; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2011

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes. But what can we expect the actual impact to be? Up until now shift-share analysis has been used to estimate the impact of rising employment on relative income poverty. This...

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Mind the gap : net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US

Marx, Ive; Marchal, Sarah; Nolan, Brian - 2012

This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...

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The rise of the free movements : how posting shapes a hybrid single European labour market

Mussche, Ninke; Corluy, Vincent; Marx, Ive - 2016

Intra‐EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra‐EU labour migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is still too low to talk of a single European labour...

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Poverty and material deprivation among the self-employed in Europe : an exploration of a relatively uncharted landscape

Horemans, Jeroen; Marx, Ive - 2017

In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in this context. With about 15 percent of European workers in self-employment this group can no longer be ignored, especially since self-employment is on the rise in many...

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Decent wage floors in Europe : does the minimum wage directive get it right?

Haapanala, Henri; Marx, Ive; Parolin, Zachary - 2022

The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding substance to the EU's social dimension. It contains two ambitious objectives: establishing the minimum level of statutory minimum wages (SMWs) at 60% of the gross median wage, and increasing collective bargaining...

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Is poverty reduction in Europe doomed? : conjectures, facts and a cautiously optimistic conclusion

Marx, Ive; Haapanala, Henri; Marchal, Sarah - 2024

There has not been much progress on the poverty front in Europe over recent decades, at least if we take it as a relative phenomenon in affluent societies. There is a lot of pessimism about the possibility of making any real progress at all. Some argue that adequate poverty relief is simply too...

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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration

Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009

The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications …

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How do trade and financial integration affect the relationship between growth and volatility?

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2006

context of globalization a term typically used to describe the phenomenon of growing international trade and financial … interaction of financial integration with volatility. -- globalization ; international trade and financial linkages …

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How does financial globalization affect risk sharing? : Patterns and channels

Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2007

In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international … better risk sharing outcomes during the recent period of globalization. Developing countries have, by and large, been shut … flows may help explain why emerging markets have not been able to realize this presumed benefit of financial globalization …

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