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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779036

Unemployment insurance in Europe : unemployment duration and subsequent employment stability

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006

"The empirical literature on unemployment insurance has focused on its direct effect on unemployment duration, while the potential indirect effect on employment stability through a more efficient matching process, as the unemployed can search for a longer period, has attracted much less...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359283

Explaining how delayed motherhood affects fertility dynamics in Europe

Bratti, Massimiliano (contributor); … - 2008

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the effect of delaying the first child on the transition to the second birth differs both among...

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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU

Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906234

Residential mobility and housing adjustment of older households in Europe

Tatsiramos, Konstantinos (contributor) - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of residential mobility of older households (above 50 years old) and the adjustment of housing for those who move employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel. Although homeowners are less likely to move compared to renters, an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499212

Automatic stabilizers, economic crisis and income distribution in Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...

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Fiscal union in Europe? : redistributive and stabilising effects of an EU tax-benefit system

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …

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Fiscal union in Europe? : redistributive and stabilising effects of an EU tax-benefit system

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012

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An unemployment insurance scheme for the Euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the...

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Employment dynamics of married women in Europe

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2005

We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial...

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