. Considerable cross-country differences are observed across the EU regarding both the level and the structure of earnings inequality …

discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member … highlight the mechanisms that bring individuals into and out of poverty. -- poverty dynamics ; EU …

empirical results are similar in qualitative but rather different in quantitative terms across EU countries. State dependence … endogeneity bias. -- poverty dynamics ; EU ; ECHP …

and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … demographic events have a stronger effect in the EU‐SILC than the ECHP for poverty entries and weaker for poverty exits; e) The …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal … information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic material deprivation we use a three-step index of chronic cumulative …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of …

Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is … still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we … compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to 2002 using an "out-of-sample" methodology. The coefficients are …