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Imbalanced Job Polarization and Skills Mismatch in Europe
Sparreboom, Theo; Tarvid, Alexander - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 1, pp. 15-42
This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...
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Social protection of non-standard workers and the self-employed during the pandemic country chapters: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Sweden
Spasova, Slavina (contributor); Ghailani, Dalila (contributor) - 2021
. 2021), this edited volume comprises eight country case studies: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal …, Romania and Sweden. [...] …
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Spatial Price Differentiation and Regional Market Power. The Case of Food-Retailing in Austria
Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Sinabell, Franz - 2013
A small number of firms have a large market share in the Austrian food retailing market. Market concentration has been growing over the last years which has raised concerns about market power. Previous studies on price setting behaviour in the food retailing market were at the national level and...
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Interest income tax evasion, the EU savings directive, and capital market effects
Klautke, Tina; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2008
The Savings Directive has been celebrated as a major political break-through in coordinating taxation in Europe. Against this background, the present paper evaluates the real-world effects of this directive. The directive has left a loophole by providing grandfathering (exemption from...
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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Armoede en ongelijkheid bij ouderen: Een vergelijkende studie van de pensioenstelsels in België en Nederland
Keupers, Ingrid - 2009
inequality in income is higher for men than for women both in Belgium and in the Netherlands. In order to minimize poverty and … tested on two cases namely Belgium and the Netherlands. Based on micro data on household income as found in the LIS database …, pensioners are compared on their poverty rates and inequality. The redistribution paradox states that poverty will be the highest …
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An updated bibliography and database on forest ecosystem service valuation studies in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
Elsasser, Peter; Meyerhoff, Jürgen; Weller, Priska - 2016
This collection presents an updated bibliography of those empirical forest ecosystem service valuation studies in the German speaking countries which relate to demand oriented measures of the utility of public goods. The associated database (which is provided as a separately downloadable...
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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy
Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024
socio-economic outcomes and country case studies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which illustrate the political …
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Health and disability insurance
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 4, pp. 349-362
Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...
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Die Haftpflichtfrage. Gutachten und Berichte veröffentlicht vom Verein für Socialpolitik
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