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European countries have the world’s most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality,...
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European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. Although they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality -- that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor -- less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality,...
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European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that...
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The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
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Europe. …
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Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...
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This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …
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stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …
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