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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2015

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the period...

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I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration

Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018

During his presidential campaign, the new elected President of U.S., Donald Trump, called for a complete ban on Muslims from entering the United States. Although numerous European observers have been shocked by his racist proposal, using the most recent round of the European Social Survey, this...

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Immigration and the health of older natives in Western Europe

Escarce, José J.; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2018

Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also affects the health of natives 65-80 years old....

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Residential satisfaction for a continuum of households : evidence from European countries

Borgoni, Riccardo; Michelangeli, Alessandra; Pirola, … - 2018

to investigate residential satisfaction in 23 European countries using 2012 EU-SILC module on housing conditions. …

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And thou shalt honor : children's caregiving, work and religion

Mazzotta, Fernanda; Bettio, Francesca; Zigante, Valentina - 2018 - draft, March 2018

In this paper we take a fresh look at the magnitude of the trade-off between caring informally for a parent and paid work. We adopt a simultaneous approach with a primary focus on how hours of care are influenced by hours of work rather than the other way round. We also investigate the role that...

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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe

Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017

types, a linguistically distant foreign language gives native-born workers the highest wage premium, while the use of EU …

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Homeownership investment and tax neutrality : a joint assessment of income and property taxes in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Verbist, Gerlinde; Zantomio, Francesca - 2019

Western countries' income tax systems exempt the return from investing in owner-occupied housing. Returns from other investments are instead taxed, thus distorting households’ portfolio choices, although it is argued that housing property taxation might act as a counterbalance. Based on data...

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R&D expenditures and employment : evidence from Europe

Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

the low-tech industries. From a policy point of view, this outcome is supporting the EU2020 strategy, but - taking into …

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The effect of changes in tax-benefit policies on the income distribution in 2008-2015

De Agostini, Paola; Paulus, Alari; Tasseva, Iva - 2016

beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2008. Using the EU tax-benefit model EUROMOD in combination with the EU …-SILC 2012 micro-data, we provide comparative estimates for EU-27 in 2008-2014 as well as for 21 EU member states in 2014 …-national variation throughout the whole period. At the EU level, policy changes in the first half of the period (2008-2011) were poverty …

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Accounting for gender differences in the distributional effects of tax and benefit policy changes

Avram, Silvia; Popova, Daria; Rastrigina, Olga - 2016

EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the EU, to estimate the effects of changes in tax-benefit policies over the … policy effects easier to observe. This analysis is performed for 18 EU countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic …

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