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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131162
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Mocan, Naci H. - 2011
substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU countries. Starting in July 2009, the salary of … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120815
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105006
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
Abbritti, Mirko - 2012
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107467
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Capital Prices and Eurozone Competitiveness Differentials
Askenazy, Philippe - 2013
Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086230
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074886
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Investigating First-Stage Exchange Rate Pass-Through : Sectoral and Macro Evidence from Euro Area Countries
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2017
In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange rate changes, for a sample of euro area (EA) countries. Our study aims to shed further light on the role of microeconomic factors vs. macroeconomic factors in influencing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962288
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Would a Euro's Depreciation Improve the French Economy?
Magnani, Riccardo - 2017
In this paper, we use a Micro-Macro model to evaluate the effects of a euro's depreciation on the French economy, both at the macro and micro level. Our Micro-Macro model consists of a Microsimulation model that includes an arithmetical model for the French fiscal system and two behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945218
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Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area
Genre, Veronique - 2009
information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU Labour Force Survey, we construct a cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763933