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 …

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 … Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European …

poverty risk in the European Union for these groups were about 19%. In Poland, the rate was 29% for children and only 7% for … reform in Poland. We examine the outcome in comparison to child policies in three other European systems and show that …

hypothesis (TLGH). The cases under analysis are Spain and Italy, two of the most important countries worldwide regarding the … exports cause economic growth in the long-term for both countries, whilst only for Spain tourism appears as a factor which …

Recovery in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain is held back in part by structural barriers. Overcoming these requires …