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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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Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262600
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of dirty goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269931
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Social capital, innovation and growth: evidence from Europe
Akçomak, I. Semih; ter Weel, Bas - 2008
This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277206
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How much does immigration boost innovation?
Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …
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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012
impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283971
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268671
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Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending
Herrmann, Peter; Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas; … - 2008
In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending, which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268861
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269379
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271875