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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe
Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007
In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...
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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …
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