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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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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 …

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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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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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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...

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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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Is corporate R&D investment in high-tech sectors more effective? : some guidelines for European Research Policy

Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Piva, Mariacristina; Potters, … - 2009

This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique micro longitudinal database consisting of 532 top European R&D investors. The main conclusions...

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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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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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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...

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