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This study aims to give guidance for a better-performing EU through an improved allocation of competences between the … new national competence (if the policy is currently assigned to the EU). The comprehensive, quantification … support at the national level. Conversely, a shift of competences to the EU level would be advantageous when it comes to …
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Assessing the quality of microsimulation models is an important contributing factor for motivating their use in both academic and policy environments. This is particularly relevant for EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union, because it is intended to be widely...
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ineffective. In order to avoid a Stagno-Europe the EU has a choice: Either it looks for the very essentials in the common … the democratic deficit at the EU level is reduced. The Treaty of Nice has failed to solve these issues. …
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Europe’s labor is not competitiveness taking unemployment as the relevant indicator. The paper looks at other indicators such as job creation, productivity and unit labor costs and skills. It analyzes the reasons for the lack of competitiveness including a low degree of wage differentiation,...
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Der Stabilitätspakt hat die Aufgabe, der nationalen Finanzpolitik bei der Verschuldung die Hände zu binden und damit den Euro als vergemeinschaftete Währung abzusichern. Denn ob Geld stabil ist, hängt auch davon ab, wie solide die Staatsfinanzen sind. Den Pakt aufzuweichen wird später einen...
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This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
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of the effectiveness of tax and benefit policies. However, partly due to the complexity of EU-SILC data collection … model's routines are enhanced with additional adjustments to the EU-SILC based input data in order to capture changes in the … employment characteristics of the population since the data were collected. The nowcasting method is applied to seventeen EU …
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