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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Automatic stabilizers, economic crisis and income distribution in Europe

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model to analyse how shocks on...

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10 years after : EU enlargement, closed borders, and migration to Germany

Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite the restrictions on the German labor market, and that...

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Returning home at times of trouble? : return migration of EU enlargement migrants during the crisis

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 countries. A significant proportion of these migrants stayed abroad only temporarily, and the Great recession may have triggered return intentions. However, a return may be...

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Has the economic crisis worsened the work-related stress and mental health of temporary workers in Spain?

Bartoll, Xavier; Gil, Joan; Ramos, Raúl - 2018

This paper analyses the causal effects of temporary employment on work-related stress and mental health before (2006/07) and during the economic crisis (2011/12) and examines whether the economic recession worsened these two health outcomes. To control for selection bias, propensity scores (PS)...

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Migration, crisis and adjustment in an enlarged E(M)U : the Spanish perspective

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Farré, Lídia - 2014

towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the importance of inflows and stocks of enlarged-EU migrants in Spain, including …

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The effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement on the Spanish labour market

Rica, Sara de la - 2009

The 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement has led to a significant increase in the immigration flow to Spain. Individuals from …-the-job training for these qualified workers so that they can find adequate job prospects in Spain and decide to stay. -- EU …

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More alike than different : the Spanish and Irish labour markets before and after the crisis

Agnese, Pablo; Salvador, Pablo F. - 2011

This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent … global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and …

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Two-tier labor markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …

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Feeling useless : the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession

Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco; Mueller, Hannes - 2015

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the causal effect of job loss. Our results suggest that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10...

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