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Sozialpolitik bei Budgetengpässen und Fiskalpakt

Aiginger, Karl - 2012

Europe is in the throes of budgetary consolidation, tightening its fiscal rules. It could not prevent the recession of 2012 and the inexorable growth of debt, especially in Southern Europe, while unemployment spreads and the social gap widens. Social policy is mostly a national matter, but is...

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Determinants of the Growth Elasticity of Poverty Reduction. Why the Impact on Poverty Reduction is Large in Some Developing Countries and Small in Others

Wieser, Christina - 2011

This paper investigates the determinants of the growth elasticity of poverty by using the internationally designed … poverty line, measured by the share of the population living below USD 1.25 per day. We identify the determinants of changes … in the poverty rate of countries using single and multiple OLS regressions as well as fixed effects. Empirical evidence …

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Child-Care Costs and Mothers' Employment Rates. An Empirical Analysis for Austria

Mahringer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - 2012

The availability of affordable institutional child-care is increasingly discussed as an important determinant of the labour force participation of parents, particularly of mothers. This paper examines the impact of child-care costs on the employment rates of mothers with children younger than 15...

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Decomposing Welfare Wedges. An Analysis of Welfare Dependence of Immigrants and Natives in Europe

Huber, Peter; Oberdabernig, Doris A. - 2014

We study differences in contributory and non-contributory welfare benefit receipt between immigrants and natives for 16 EU countries. In contrast to previous studies we analyse differences in benefit levels allowing for potentially different takeup rates between immigrants and natives and use...

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Diversity of Welfare Systems in the EU: A Challenge for Policy Coordination

Biffl, Gudrun - 2003

As the EU economies and societies become increasingly integrated, and as labour market behaviour patterns converge across borders, the EU strives to develop a substantially common social identity. To this end, it seeks to promote the development of a sustainable institutional framework which...

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Entwicklung und Formen von Flexibilität und sozialer Absicherung in den EU-Staaten: Ein Überblick

Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2006

Tertiarisation, globalisation, technologisation, demographic change and international migration combine to produce changes that affect many spheres of life: new markets are opening up, technological progress accelerates, the usefulness of original education declines, training and ongoing...

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Welfare Magnets, Taxation and the Location Decisions of Migrants to the EU

Nowotny, Klaus - 2011

Migrants are among the groups most vulnerable to economic fluctuations. As predicted by the "welfare magnet" hypothesis, migrants can therefore be expected to - ceteris paribus - prefer countries with more generous welfare provisions to insure themselves against labour market risks. This paper...

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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria

Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020

As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...

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Dimensionen von Digitalisierung der Sozialpolitik in Österreich: Ein konzeptioneller Diskussionsbeitrag

Angel, Stefan - 2022

Wirksamkeit von Sozialpolitik in Österreich hat. Auf Basis facheinschlägiger Literatur werden bestimmte Dimensionen von … Digitalisierung und ihre Relevanz für die Sozialpolitik besprochen. Im Vergleich zu anderen Beiträgen, die sich mit …

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Macroeconomic Effects of EU Enlargement for Old and New Members

Breuss, Fritz - 2001

A new macroeconomic evaluation of EU enlargement is undertaken with a world macroeconomic model taking into account all possible integration effects: trade effects, Single Market effects, factor movements (FDI, migration) and the costs of enlargement. Due to the differences in size of the...

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