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Co-movements between public and private wages in the EU : which factors play a role?

Marzinotto, Benedicta; Turrini, Alessandro - 2016

This paper assesses the relationship between government and manufacturing wages. We find that the long-run relation between the two wages is stronger when the government is a large employer. Manufacturing wages are better aligned with productivity and unemployment when public wages, to which...

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Is childcare bad for the mental health of grandparents? : evidence from SHARE

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2016

We estimate the causal effects of regular and occasional grandchild care on the depression of grandmothers and grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and an instrumental variables strategy which exploits the variation in the timing of interviews...

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Well-being, poverty and labor income taxation : theory and application to Europe and the U.S.

Maniquet, François; Neumann, Dirk - 2016

In a model in which agents differ in wages and preferences over labor time-consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place between agents on both sides of the poverty line...

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The pass-through of exchange rate in the context of the European sovereign debt crisis

Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Rault, Christophe - 2015

This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Using logistic smooth transition models, we explore the...

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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a …

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Mobility into and out of poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the pre-crisis period : the role of income, demographic and labour market events

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016

and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … demographic events have a stronger effect in the EU‐SILC than the ECHP for poverty entries and weaker for poverty exits; e) The …

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Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period

Papadopoulos, Fotis; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal … information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic material deprivation we use a three-step index of chronic cumulative …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of …

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Education policies and migration across European countries

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...

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Open borders, transport links and local labor markets

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2016

variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The …

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Education as a tool for the economic integration of migrants

De Paola, Maria; Brunello, Giorgio - 2016

We examine the role of education in fostering the economic integration of immigrants. Although immigrants in Europe are – on average – slightly less educated than native individuals, there is a large heterogeneity across countries. We discuss evidence on student performance in international...

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