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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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Earnings dynamics and inequality among men across 14 EU countries, 1994 - 2001: evidence from ECHP

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

relevant in the context of the changes that took place in the EU labour market policy framework after 1995 under the incidence … allow relative wages to better reflect individual differences in productivity and local labour market conditions. What is …

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Policy, institutional factors and earnings mobility

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross … labour market policy and institutional factors. The results revealed a highly complex framework, where institutions interact … the pattern of the three labour market outcomes. …

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Increased opportunity to move up the economic ladder? Earnings mobility in EU ; 1994 - 2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of earnings over time? This question is answered by exploring short and long-term wage mobility for males across 14 EU countries between 1994 and 2001 using ECHP. Mobility is evaluated using rank measures...

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Equalizing or disequalizing lifetime earnings differentials? Earnings mobility in the EU: 1994 - 2001

Sologon, Denisa Maria; Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic...

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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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