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Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country : North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2011

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...

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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …

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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence

D'Adamo, Gaetano - 2013

During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...

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An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives Using Micro Data

Dolls, Mathias - 2014

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and 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...

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