?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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Spain. In particular, survey respondents are asked how their contracting practices of peripheral services had changed in the … correlated with increases in the plant's market share as well as increases in product market competition and product prices …

possible autocorrelation and endogeneity. The results show that in the northern part of Italy, where most immigrants are … effect prevails, while there is a negative effect only in the manufacturing sector in Northern Italy for 1996. This effect …

marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and … France have flatter wealth gradients. …

contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …