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Fairness and Redistribution : U.S. Versus Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

Different beliefs about how fair social competition is and what determines income inequality, influence the redistributive policy chosen democratically in a society. But the composition of income in the first place depends on equilibrium tax policies. If a society believes that individual effort...

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Quantity Over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment

Eichhorst, Werner - 2010

This paper explores the empirical evidence for the claim that non-employed men and women in post-industrial labour markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously been the case. It concludes that whilst the unemployed and the inactive remain distinct groups...

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A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...

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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms

Hemerijck, Anton - 2010

The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to reforms. This has been true about a decade ago. But both the institutional set-up and the...

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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019

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Labor Market Reforms in Europe : Towards More Flexicure Labor Markets?

Eichhorst, Werner - 2016

Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...

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Inequality and Happiness : Are Europeans and Americans Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

happiness,' we find that there is a large, negative and significant effect of inequality on happiness in Europe but not in the … Europe inequality makes the poor unhappy, as well as the leftists. This favors the hypothesis that inequality affects … right). The results help explain the greater popular demand for government to fight inequality in Europe relative to the US …

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. And Europe : Why so Different?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

the U.S. and Europe. Another popular view is that these differences are explained by long-standing European "culture," but … the U.S. and Europe. These policies do not seem to have increased employment, but they may have had a more society …

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Why Doesn'T the Us Have a European-Style Welfare System?

Alesina, Alberto F.; Glaeser, Edward L.; Sacerdote, Bruce - 2021

these factors appear to explain the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, the differences appear to be the result …

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