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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy

Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716533

Scale, diversity, and determinants of labour migration in Europe

Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor); … - 2008

While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better … including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 … and EU10 countries are analysed using individual data on migration intentions. In addition, perceptions about the size of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737640

An econometric analysis of emission allowance prices

Paolella, Marc S.; Taschini, Luca - In: Journal of banking & finance 32 (2008) 10, pp. 2022-2032

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Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe : the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation...

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Competition versus efficiency : what drives franchise values in European banking?

De Jonghe, Olivier; Vander Vennet, Rudi - In: Journal of banking & finance 32 (2008) 9, pp. 1820-1835

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The roots of low European employment : family culture?

Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...

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Explaining cross-border large-value payment flows : evidence from TARGET and EURO1 data

Rosatti, Simonetta; Secola, Stefania - In: Journal of banking & finance 30 (2006) 6, pp. 1753-1782

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Why are more redistributive social security systems smaller? : A median voter approach

Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor); … - 2005

We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an "efficiency-redistribution" trade-off to be resolved by political process. The inefficiency of social security...

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Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2005

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay emancipation. We provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries...

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Welfare migration in Europe and the cost of a harmonised social assistance

De Giorgi, Giacomo (contributor); … - 2006

the actual implementation of this system would be politically problematic. -- EU enlargement ; migration ; welfare state …

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