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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131163
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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
Eichhorst, Werner - 2010
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135827
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Sizing it Up : Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27
Constant, Amelie F. - 2011
While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising … grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old … Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to the labor markets. Visceral fear rendered more than one in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118036
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Emigration and Wages : The EU Enlargement Experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118058
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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118277
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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance : Evidence Form Four New EU Members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125463
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Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States
Bell, David N.F. - 2011
This paper focuses particularly on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again, how the present difficulties of young people entering the labour market differ from those of the past and what useful lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125472
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126136
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US : New Results
Bargain, Olivier - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103467
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106961