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Alternative tax-benefit strategies to support children in the European Union: Recent reforms in Austria, Spain and the UK
Levy, Horacio; Lietz, Christine; Sutherland, Holly - 2006
We compare three EU countries that have recently experienced substantial but very different reforms of their family support systems: Austria, Spain and the UK. The structure of these systems is different: Austria emphases universal benefits, Spain tax concessions and the UK means-tested...
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Interactions between national and regional development
Davies, Sara; Hallet, Martin - 2002
Williamson (1965) argued that catching up countries experiencing strong national growth tend also to see a widening in regional disparities, whereas in more developed economies strong national growth and falling regional disparities could go hand in hand. We find some evidence of a trade-off...
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Heterogeneous expectations, learning and European inflation dynamics
Weber, Anke - 2007
This paper is the first attempt to investigate the performance of different learning rules in fitting survey data of household and expert inflation expectations in five core European economies (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain). Overall it is found that constant gain learning...
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Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender Wage Gaps in the EU
Heinze, Anja; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam; Laisney, … - 2003
We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom), focusing on self-selection into market work. Results show that selectivity correction has an impact on both wage estimates and wage gap decomposition. If...
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Proceedings of the European Workshop on the Evaluation of Farm Investment Support, Investment Support for Improvement of Processing and Marketing of Agricultural Products
Bergschmidt, Angela (contributor);  … - 2006
Contents: i - Angela Bergschmidt, Walter Dirksmeyer and Bernhard Forstner - Proceedings of the European Evaluation Workshop – Foreword -- PAPERS PRESENTED IN THE PLENARY SESSIONS -- 3 - Stefan Meyer - Methods for the Evaluation of Investment Support -- 15 - Andrea Pufahl - Programme Evaluation...
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Spanien: kräftige monetäre Impulse überdecken strukturelle Schwächen
Rietzler, Katja - In: DIW Wochenbericht 71 (2004) 11, pp. 131-137
Linie das Ergebnis der für Spanien stark expansiv wirkenden Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) sowie der … dem Immobilienmarkt ausgelöst, der zunehmend Züge einer spekulativen Blase annimmt. Soll Spanien auf einem dauerhaften … anderen ist eine massive Förderung von Bildung und Forschung nötig, soll Spanien nicht länger den zweithöchsten Anteil an …
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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland
Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001
This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions...
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Is Poland the Next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - 2004
The authors revisit Western Europe's record with labor-productivity convergence and tentatively extrapolate its implications for the future path of Eastern Europe. The poorer Western European countries caught up with the richer ones through both higher rates of physical capital accumulation and...
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Does employment protection help immigrants? Evidence from European labor markets
Sá, Filipa - 2008
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
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