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Matthew runs amok : the Belgian service voucher scheme

Marx, Ive; Vandelannoote, Dieter - 2014

measures to boost domestic services employment. No country has done so with more fervor than Belgium. Belgian consumers can use …

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Combating in-work poverty in continental Europe : an investigation using the Belgian case

Marx, Ive; Vanhille, Josefine; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2011

emulated elsewhere. We present micro-simulation derived results for Belgium to illustrate some of these points. Policy options … impact on in-work poverty but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and …

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Is quick formal access to the labor market enough? : refugees' labor market integration in Belgium

Lens, Dries; Marx, Ive; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018

This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has …

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Does migration motive matter for migrants' employment outcomes? : the case of Belgium

Lens, Dries; Marx, Ive; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018

integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap. Based on data from the 2014 …

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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Do Europe's minimum income schemes provide adequate shelter against the economic crisis and how, if at all, have governments responded?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha - 2011

The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union...

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The objective measurement of world-leading research

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

measure of, a nation's 'world-leading research'? Following a variant of a method developed in Oswald (2010), I examine … citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK … Research Assessment Exercise period 2001-2008. I conclude that it is possible to produce an objective measure of world …

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Can higher employment levels bring lower poverty in the EU? : regression based simulations of the Europe 2020 target

Marx, Ive; Vandenbroucke, Pieter; Verbist, Gerlinde - 2011

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes. But what can we expect the actual impact to be? Up until now shift-share analysis has been used to estimate the impact of rising employment on relative income poverty. This...

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Mind the gap : net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US

Marx, Ive; Marchal, Sarah; Nolan, Brian - 2012

This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...

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The rise of the free movements : how posting shapes a hybrid single European labour market

Mussche, Ninke; Corluy, Vincent; Marx, Ive - 2016

article aims to fill this gap by exploring unique posting data for Belgium. Based on these data we argue that while the free …

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