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The distributional impact of social transfers in the European Union : evidence from the ECHP

Heady, Christopher John; Mitrakos, Theodōros M.; … - 2001

Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...

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Using machine learning to create an early warning system for welfare recipients

Sansone, Dario; Zhu, Anna - 2021

Using high-quality nation-wide social security data combined with machine learning tools, we develop predictive models of income support receipt intensities for any payment enrolee in the Australian social security system between 2014 and 2018. We show that off-the-shelf machine learning...

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Stemming the tide : what have EU countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive - 2015

Governments across the EU have been striving to get more people into work while at the same time acknowledging that more needs to be done to 'make work pay'. Yet this drive comes at a time when structural economic shifts are putting pressure on wages, especially of less skilled workers. This...

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A poisoned gift? : the hireability signals of an income-support program for the senior unemployed

Dalle, Axana; Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn - 2023

Many OECD countries invest heavily in labour-market programs to prolong careers. Although active labour-market programs designed for this purpose have frequently been evaluated, less is known about the employment impact of more passive regimes that make labour-market participation later in life...

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How much language is enough? : some immigrant language lessons from Canada and Germany

DeVoretz, Don J.; Hinte, Holger; Werner, Christiane - 2002

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …

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Immigrant volunteering : a way out of labour market discrimination?

Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016

integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement lowers the hiring discrimination against them …

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What is the value of foreign work experience? : analysing online CV data in Slovakia

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2016

disadvantages with labour market integration. …

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Improving the integration of refugees : an early evaluation of a Swedish reform

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Lanninger, Alma W.; … - 2015

facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …

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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results

Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...

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Language and labor market success

Isphording, Ingo Eduard - 2014

migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …

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