- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs … from the 1994 wave of the Living in Ireland Survey. The results are used to analyse the labour supply effects of a move to …

building prices. European countries, especially France, have experienced a significant rise in property prices since the … beginning of the century. Germany is an exception. A large increase in the prices of buildings, structures and lands for private … France, non‐financial corporations (NFCs) pay a large supplementary cost for their investments and have to distribute massive …

; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …

the degree of fairness of tax-benefit schemes in different countries. Only the Continental countries France and Luxembourg …