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Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other …

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Earnings Shocks and Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting : Evidence from European Multinationals

Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2012

This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...

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Do Transfer Pricing Laws Limit International Income Shifting? Evidence from European Multinationals

Lohse, Theresa - 2013

In recent years several countries have augmented their national tax laws by transfer pricing legislations which intend to limit the leeway of multinational firms to exploit international corporate tax rate differences and relocate profit to low-tax affiliates by distorting intra-firm transfer...

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A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006–2016

Jauer, Julia - 2018

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …

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Is Well-Being U-Shaped Over the Life Cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...

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Occupational Mobility in Europe : Extent, Determinants and Consequences

Bachmann, Ronald - 2019

We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change...

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Crowding Out of Long-Term Care Insurance : Evidence from European Expectations Data

Costa-Font, Joan - 2014

Long-term care (LTC) is the largest insurable risk that old-age individuals face in most western societies. However, the demand for LTC insurance is still ostensibly small in comparison to the financial risk, which is reflected in the formation of expectations of insurance coverage. One...

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia - 2014

new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe.Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …

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Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession : Evidence from Europe

Bachmann, Ronald - 2015

crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses on individual heterogeneity, on the type …

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