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The European Social Welfare Function Shaped on a Difference Principle : A Normative Rawlsian Approach in Favour of Fiscal Union

Klaser, Klaudijo - 2018

Why might the European member states seek for Fiscal Union? Coordination, macro-stability purposes and provision of (European) public goods are certainly goals of paramount importance for the implementation of Fiscal Union at European level. However, there is an equally important component of...

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Fiscal and Migration Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2010

It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a ‘race to the bottom'. This result may indeed hold in the case of factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor...

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The Free Movement of Inactive Citizens in the EU - A Challenge for the European Welfare State?

Ochel, Wolfgang - 2007

The EU Directive on Free Movement of 2004 extended free movement within the EU to Union citizens who are inactive and gave them access to the welfare benefits of host countries. The paper examines the extent to which these measures provoke migration to those countries with the highest levels of...

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States

Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation … affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic labour markets. Higher productivity of outsourcing, lower cost …-skilled workers. Increasing wage tax progression of lowskilled workers decreases the wage rate and increases the labour demand of low …

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Enlargement versus Deepening : The Trade-Off Facing Economic Unions

Lorz, Oliver - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between the size of an economic union and the degree of policy centralization. We consider a political economy setting in which elected representatives bargain about the degree of centralization within the union. In our model strategic delegation affects the...

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Voting in the European Union - Central Europe's Lost Voice

Schneider, Ondrej - 2008

Ten Central European countries became members of the European Union in the years 2004-2007. They constitute 20% of the EU's total population; and even though their economic output is much lower, it rises dynamically. New members' impact on the EU policies has nevertheless been limited. This is...

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Labour Market Institutions and Their Effect on Labour Market Performance in the New EU Member Countries

Fialová, Kamila - 2008

This article focuses on the role of labour market institutions in explaining different labour market developments in … of various institutional setups and of their changes on major labour market indicators. We aim at complementing several … early 2000's both in quot;oldquot; and quot;newquot; EU member states. We estimate effects of labour market institutions on …

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Did Austerity Cause Brexit?

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018

Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...

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Money Can't Buy EU Love : European Funds and the Brexit Referendum

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2016

We explore the role of the transfers that UK regions received from the European structural and cohesion funds, as well as other economic and social factors, in determining the support for the Remain vote in the Brexit referendum, and that past European transfers have played virtually no role in...

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