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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809161
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The transition from work to retirement
Eichhorst, Werner - 2011
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229627
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Welfare and employment : a European dilemma?
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782530
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The distribution of well-being among Europeans
Brandolini, Andrea; Rosolia, Alfonso - 2019
We analyse the evolution of EU citizens' living standards, considering the EU as a single country. Average living standards have improved considerably as the European integration process has unfolded. EU28 income inequality has steadily declined, mostly as a result of the macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015871
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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760087
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Instability of the Eurozone? : On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2007
"This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary … policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we … assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and investigate this question by an examination of the relationship between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429626
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Welfare effects of the euro cash changeover
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - 2006
Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522939
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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market : first results from the euro experiment
Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … and inflation volatility ; labor turnover costs ; unemployment benefits ; unemployment ; eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961662
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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
representative household microdata from 11 Eurozone countries to simulate these policy reforms and to study their effects on the … that not all forms of fiscal integration will improve macroeconomic stability in the Eurozone. -- European income tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545267
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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308548