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Altersteilzeit: Erfahrungen und Diskussionen in Deutschland und anderen EU-Ländern

Lindecke, Christiane; Voss-Dahm, Dorothea; Lehndorff, … - 2007

Arbeitszeit senken - umgesetzt wurde.Die Erfahrungen mit graduellen Ausstiegspfaden und besonders der Altersteilzeit in Schweden …, Finnland, Dänemark und den Niederlanden geben einen Einblick in die Such- und Experimentierprozesse in anderen europäischen … Schweden wird allerdings deutlich, dass Regulierungen für den graduellen Ausstieg auch in die entgegengesetzte Richtung wirken …

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Is mothers' employment an effective means to fight family poverty? Empirical evidence from seven European countries

Büchel, Felix; Mertens, Antje; Orsini, Kristian - 2003

Using data from the mid-1990s from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), we analyze for several household types the effect of mothers' work participation on families' relative income position and poverty risk. Results are compared across seven European countries with contrasting family policies:...

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Families at the margins of the welfare state: A comparative study on the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance

Kuivalainen, Susan - 2005

The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy and poverty reduction effectiveness of social assistance...

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Societal shifts and changed patterns of poverty

Fritzell, Johan; Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2004

This paper uses data from the Luxembourg Income Study to analyse cross-national and cross-temporal poverty risks in eleven western countries. Our analyses are embedded in the tradition of welfare state research. Despite a hundred years of welfare state efforts, at the beginning of the 21st...

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Ireland's income distribution in comparative perspective

Nolan, Brian; Smeeding, Timothy - 2004

One of the most frequently expressed concerns about the unprecedented economic boom that Ireland experienced in the second half of the 1990s has been that the benefits were not shared evenly, that rising living standards were accompanied by widening gaps leaving Ireland with a particularly...

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The impact of temporary employment and employment protection on labour productivity: evidence from an industry-level panel of EU countries

Lisi, Domenico - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 2, pp. 119-144

In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

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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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Household Income Distribution and Hours of Work: An International Comparison

Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart - 1999

The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to analyze the relationship between the distribution of household income and the distribution of working time in six European countries and in the United States. The second objective is to assess how the tax and transfer systems affect the gender...

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Trends of Poverty and Income Inequality in Cross-National Comparison

Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2001

Comparative research of poverty, income inequality and the effectiveness of income transfer systems has flourished during the last two decades, largely owing to the contribution of the Luxembourg Income Study project. So far, however, the majority of comparative analyses have been based on a...

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Finland and Its Northern Peers in the Great Recession

Suni, Paavo; Vihriälä, Vesa - 2016

The report focuses on the relative macroeconomic performance since the global financial crisis of six Northern European countries with a special emphasis on Finland. While fiscal and monetary policies have definitely impacted on macroeconomic outcomes in the six countries examined, as a whole...

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