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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007

and women within couples in a selection of the member countries of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the EU tax …

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Do reservation wages really decline? : Some international evidence on the determinants of reservation wages

Addison, John T. (contributor); Centeno, Mário (contributor) - 2008

Using cross-country data, we investigate the determinants of reservation wages and their course over the jobless spell. Higher unemployment benefits lead to higher reservation wages. Further, again consistent with the basic search model, repeated observations on the same individual provide scant...

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Welfare reform in European countries : a microsimulation analysis

Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2005

This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue neutral and financed by an overall and uniform increase in marginal tax rates on earnings. The first reform...

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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are … out the difficulties that restrictions on the free movement of workers bring about. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU …

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Lessons from migration after EU enlargement

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …

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The reservation wage unemployment duration nexus

Addison, John T.; Machado, José A. F.; Portugal, Pedro - 2010

A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...

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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes : panel evidence on australian university graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2010

The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...

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Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU : an East-West comparison

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor) - 2008

The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU … importance in the western EU member states, both immigrant status and citizenship matter in the eastern EU member states, their … the relationships between being non-citizen and labor market outcomes that we find in the eastern EU member states …

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Pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into the European welfare state

Kahanec, Martin; Kim, Anna Myunghee; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

experts from organizations working on immigrant integration in the EU is analyzed using simple comparative statistical methods …

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High-skilled immigration policy in Europe

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...

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