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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective

Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008

economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …

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Employment protection reforms, employment and the incidence of temporary jobs in Europe: 1995 - 2001

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2007

Using European Community Household Panel data for nine countries for 1996-2001, I investigate the impact of reforms of employment protection systems on employment and on temporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are estimated, with the inclusion of...

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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending

Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008

recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the … issue and factor analytical calculations is presented, which supports our general argument about the efficiency of the … policies rather than social policies. The empirical evidence, suggests that in terms of the efficiency of the European social …

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Welfare and employment: a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hemerijck, Anton - 2008

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

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Labor market policies and outcomes: cross country evidence for the EU-27

Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2007

We conduct a comparative analysis of Labor Market Policies and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on indicators of policy generosity...

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Labor market policies, institutions and employment rates in the EU-27

Rovelli, Riccardo; Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2008

We compare labor market policies, institutions and outcomes for the EU member states, for the period 2000-2005. We document the main differences in Labor Market Policies across EU members, including new member states after 2004. We focus on indicators of policy generosity (expenditures relative...

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The contribution of social transfers to the reduction of poverty

Longford, Nicholas T.; Nicodemo, Catia - 2010

We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social...

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Social spending generosity and income inequality: a dynamic panel approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM...

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Mind the gap: Net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US

Marx, Ive; Marchal, Sarah; Nolan, Brian - 2012

This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...

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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers

Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001

This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers? self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...

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