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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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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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labour market the higher the risk of social exclusion. However, the extent to which secure and uninterrupted employment …
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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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In this paper, we explore the impact of social policies and labour market characteristics on women's decisions … arrangements, family allowances, and labour market flexibility. Our empirical results show that a non-negligible portion of the … characteristics of these institutions, and that the environmental effects vary by educational level. While labour market arrangements …
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factors such as the labor and the mortgage market. …
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several factors explaining the different patterns in Europe: preferences and culture, labor market conditions, housing market …
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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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should focus primarily on education, training, development of personal skills and other labour market oriented policies. The …
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