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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP

Heady, Christopher; Mitrakos, Theodore; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2001

Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...

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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001

labour market the higher the risk of social exclusion. However, the extent to which secure and uninterrupted employment …

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Earnings inequality in Europe: structure and patterns of inter-temporal changes

Cholezas, Ioannis; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2007

The paper provides an analysis of the level, the structure and the patterns of inter-temporal change in hourly earnings inequality in Europe. For the purposes of static inequality decomposition analysis, the data of the ECHP are employed. Considerable cross-country differences are observed...

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Enlarging the EMU to the east: what effects on trade?

Belke, Ansgar; Spies, Julia - 2008

, we are able to predict the future impact of the Euro. Our findings suggest that except for the least integrated countries …

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Instability of the Eurozone? On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2007

policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we … prevailed until some months ago, can also manifest themselves in asset price inflation, notably in the housing market. When … are now appearing within the Euro area which threaten its long-term cohesiveness. The most manifest example of this threat …

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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries: a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach

Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2005

This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...

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The impact of institutions on the employment performance in European labour markets

Buscher, Herbert S.; Dreger, Christian; Ramos, Raúl; … - 2005

This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As … transfer system and active labour market policies. As cointegration between employment, output and factor prices is detected …

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Once poor, always poor? Do initial conditions matter? Evidence from the ECHP

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2011

should focus primarily on education, training, development of personal skills and other labour market oriented policies. The …

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