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The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011
This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....
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Efficient and inefficient welfare states
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274587
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Flexible outsourcing and the impacts of labour taxation in European Welfare States
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - 2008
In European Welfare States, unskilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual domestic...
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An empirical analysis of the dynamics of the welfare state: the case of benefit morale
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269153
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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe
Heckman, James Joseph; Jacobs, Bas - 2009
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274258
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Trends in economic research: an international perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
and rely on a very comprehensive database of scientific journals, to provide a cross-country comparison of the evolution … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269503
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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and … Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287662
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Wage effects of recruitment methods: the case of the Italian social service sector
Mosca, Michele; Pastore, Francesco - 2008
This paper uses a unique data set containing detailed micro-information on organisations, managers, workers and volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The analysis aims to estimate the determinants of wages across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268718
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Child Care Choices by Italian Households
Del Boca, Daniela; Locatelli, Marilena; Vuri, Daniela - 2004
In spite of relatively generous public subsidies and a reputation for high quality, only a very limited proportion of Italian families use public child care. In this paper we explore the significance of various factors on the choices made between different types of child care. In part one, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261757