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Differential welfare state impacts for frontier working age families
Burlacu, Irina S.; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2012
evaluate the impact of unemployment benefits and income taxation on these frontier workers' welfare in Luxembourg and Belgium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009569316
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A tale of parallel integration processes : a gravity analysis of EU trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European countries
Ferragina, Anna (contributor);  … - 2005
Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries and that with the new EU members, we compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003275037
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Wage structure effects of international trade : evidence from a small open economy
Du Caju, Philip; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan - 2011
In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this paper aims to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235159
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The Frisch elasticity in the Mercosur countries : a pseudo-panel approach
González, Roberto; Sala, Hector - 2011
This paper provides estimates for the Mercosur countries of the Frisch elasticity - i.e., the elasticity of substitution between worked hours and real wages holding constant the marginal utility of wealth. We find a strong heterogeneity, with estimated elasticities ranging from 12.8 in Argentina...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422476
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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Earnings dynamics and inequality among men in Luxembourg, 1988 - 2004 : evidence from administrative data
Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2010
Starting with the late 1980s and intensifying after early 1990s, Luxembourg evolved from an industrial economy to an … extraordinary longitudinal dataset drawn from administrative records on professional career, we decomposed Luxembourg’s growth in … Luxembourg are worst off both in terms of their relative wage and in terms of their opportunity of improving their relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976945
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Myth or fact? : the beauty premium across the wage distribution
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2012
. Comparing the effects of beauty and confidence measures in two countries (Germany and Luxembourg), we find that wages are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559134
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A tax benefit model for policy evaluation in Luxembourg : LuxTaxBen
Islam, Nizamul; Flood, Lennart - 2015
unearned income. The LuxTaxBen is capable to handle almost all parts of the Luxembourg tax and transfer systems. Such a model … Luxembourg tax-transfer system. The model consists of a number of modules such as module for child benefit, housing allowance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289233
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Cross-national differences in wealth portfolios at the intensive margin : is there a role for policy?
Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2014
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379932
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Evaluation of language training programs in Luxembourg using principal stratification
Bia, Michela; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Mercatanti, Andrea - 2018
-quality administrative data from Luxembourg. We address selection into training by exploiting the rich administrative information available …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011950739