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The impact of welfare benefits on natives' and immigrants' attitudes towards immigration : background paper for "migration in an ageing Europe: what are the challenges?"

Huber, Peter; Oberdabernig, Doris A. - 2015

We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by natives and immigrants in a pooled cross-section of 21 European countries for the 2004-2010 period. Explicitly controlling for the dependence of immigrants and natives on...

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Labour market institutions and regional unemployment disparities

Huber, Peter - 2013

housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …

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Education and social mobility in Europe : levelling the playing field for Europe's children and fuelling its economy

Altzinger, Wilfried; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; … - 2015

The persistence of socioeconomic outcomes across generations acts as a barrier to a society's ability to exploit its resources efficiently. In order to derive policy measures which aim at accelerating intergenerational mobility, we review the existent body of research on the causes, effects and...

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Migration in an ageing Europe : what are the challenges?

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Huber, Peter; Oberdabernig, … - 2015

We use new migration modelling and projection techniques in order to quantify the effect of migration in the context of ageing societies in Europe over the forthcoming decades. Using new empirical results, data and projections of migration flows developed in the framework of the WWWforEUROPE...

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Labour market performance in OECD countries : a comprehensive empirical modelling approach of institutional interdependencies

Sachs, Andreas; Schleer, Frauke - 2013

Reducing institutional rigidities in product and labour markets is key to lowering unemployment. The impact of such … changes in employment protection and the unemployment benefit system the impact on unemployment is mixed across countries …

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(Spillover) effects of labour market reforms in Germany and France

Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013

efficiency and reduced unemployment benefits induced by the German Hartz reforms in a two-country RBC model with frictions in the …

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