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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

?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 …

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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe: an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …

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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe

Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Mercader-Prats, Magda; … - 2005

family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain … and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …

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Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012

discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …

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Producer protection legislation and termination damages in the presence of contracting frictions

Wu, Steven Y. - 2009

This study models producer protection legislation that would grant growers the right to claim damages (PPLD) if their contracts are prematurely terminated. In the absence of contracting frictions that prevent contractors from redesigning contracts to accommodate exogenous policy changes, PPLD...

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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004

This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main...

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Privatization discontent and its determinants: evidence from Latin America

Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - 2005

Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this discontent. We use the results of Latinobarometro (2002), a survey of a representative sample of 18522 individuals in 17 countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a...

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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms: evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

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Fertility changes in Latin America in the context of economic uncertainty

Adsera, Alicia; Menendez, Alicia - 2009

We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different...

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