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Petreski, Marjan - 2021

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Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target

Marx, Ive - 2014

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation … impact on relative income poverty of moving towards the Europe 2020 target of 75 percent of the working aged population in …

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Assessing the effectiveness of social protection measures in mitigating COVID-19-related income shocks in the European Union

Gasior, Katrin; Jara, H. Xavier; Makovec, Mattia - 2023

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The right amount of trust

Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010

We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...

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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life : Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011

With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. Macro-economic recession and...

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The Right Amount of Trust

Butler, Jeffrey V. - 2009

A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs available...

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Article 82 EC - the problems and the solution

Temple Lang, John - 2009

The Commission's Guidance paper on exclusionary abuse under Article 82 EC is open to three fundamental criticisms. First, it leads to less legal certainty, because the rules suggested are vague and imprecise, because dominant companies will not have the information needed to apply them, and...

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COVID-19 credit-support programmes in Europe's five largest economies

Anderson, Julia; Papadia, Francesco; Véron, Nicolas - 2021

In 2020, European governments mitigated the economic impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and other pandemic-fighting programmes through a host of initiatives. These included efforts to support credit, such as guarantees for bank loans, particularly to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We...

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L' Europa innova, e l’Italia? : 2018-2019 : no sguardo dalle colonne di HuffingtonPost

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Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP

Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2011

The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling … for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994 … very important policy implications, since if the former is the main cause of poverty it is of paramount importance to break …

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