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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007

In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...

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The discontinuous integration of Western Europe's heterogeneous market for corporate control from 1995 to 2007

Frey, Rainer - 2010

market for corporate control - an illustrative market for studying integration issues - over the period from 1995 to 2007 … introduction of the euro may have led to accelerated integration. However, thereafter we find no evidence for further progress … becomes apparent in differing and continuing bilateral border effects. Country pairs with supposedly liberal capital market …

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Returns to migration, education, and externalities in the European Union

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis - 2010

Relatively little attention has been paid to the role that externalities play in determining the pecuniary returns to migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European Union (EU) for the period 1994-2001 in order to...

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Assimilation and integration of immigrants in Europe

Aleksynska, Mariya; Algan, Yann - 2010

This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in European destinations along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions, distinguishing by immigrants' generation, duration of stay, and origin. Based on the European Social Survey, it suggests that assimilation may have multiple facets, and take...

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Competitive Economic Performance: The European View

Aiginger, Karl; Landesmann, Michael - 2002

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Innovation Barriers across Firms and Countries

Hölzl, Werner; Janger, Jürgen - 2012

This paper studies differences in the perception of innovation barriers between innovative and non-innovative firms for 18 EU countries. The countries are grouped by their distance to the technological frontier using Community Innovation Surveys for the years 2002-2004 and 2004-2006. The results...

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Fiscal divergence and current account imbalances in Europe

Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013

Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...

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Simulating security of supply effects of the Nabucco and South Stream projects for the European natural gas market

Dieckhöner, Caroline - 2010

further gas supplies to the European market. As one of the European Union's energy policies' foci is security of supply, the …

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Spatial dependence of regional unemployment in the European Union

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2002

across regions. However, the spatial dimension of regional labour market problems is largely neglected in the corresponding … effects of distance, possibly causing spatial dependence of regional labour market conditions. Spatial association of regional …

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Market Access and Regional Disparities: New Economic Geography in Europe

Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2004

NEG that access advantages raise factor prices. The paper investigates the significance of market access for regional …

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