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The relationship between EU indicators of persistent and current poverty

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2012

The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between these two indicators across EU countries drawing on empirical analysis of EU-SILC and ECHP data....

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Returning home at times of trouble? Return migration of EU enlargement migrants during the crisis

Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 countries. A significant proportion of these migrants stayed abroad only temporarily, and the Great recession may have triggered return intentions. However, a return may be...

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Reforming an asymmetric union: On the virtues of dual tier capital taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Lülfesmann, Christoph - 2013

The tax competition for mobile capital, in particular the reluctance of small countries to agree on measures of tax coordination, has ongoing political and economic fallouts within Europe. We analyse the effects of introducing a two tier structure of capital taxation, where the asymmetric member...

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The impact of market regulations on intra-European real exchange rates

Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2013

-rate variations within the European Union and especially within the Euro area, through theirs impacts on the relative price of …

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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations: Is the EU right?

Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012

Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best policy, given that auctioning with border adjustment...

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Evidence on fiscal consolidations and the evolution of public debt in Europe

Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto - 2012

The objective of this paper is to gain insights into the relationship between deficit-reducing policies and the evolution of the debt/GDP ratio. We consider past events of fiscal consolidation in a selected group of EU countries, by using the new data set recently made available by Devries et...

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Klimawandel und betriebliche Innovationsprozesse

Ehrenfeld, Wilfried - 2012

Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier stellt den inhaltlichen Rahmen der kumulativen Dissertation zum Thema 'Climate Change and Corporate Innovation Processes' an der Technischen Universität Dresden dar. Diese besteht aus sechs bereits veröffentlichten Fachartikeln. Durch die gegenwärtig...

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Fiscal policy and growth in the context of European integration

Masson, Paul - 2000

The paper considers the issue of whether a supranational fiscal policy in Europe is needed, and, if so what responsibilities it should undertake. The literature on endogenous growth and the principle of subsidiarity suggest that such a policy should be limited to externalities or economies of...

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Economic growth and the labor markets: Europe's challenge

Wyplosz, Charles - 2000

This paper reviews the accumulated theory and evidence on the sources of European underperformance in terms of economic growth and unemployment. It takes the view that the main problem lies with labor market institutions, ranging from negotiation structures to hiring and firing costs,...

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The Belgian industrial confidence indicator: leading indicator of economic activity in the euro area?

Vanhaelen, Jean-Jacques; Dresse, Luc; De Mulder, Jan - 2000

Belgian industrial confidence indicator might precede the euro area business cycles. The initial purpose of this paper is to … industrial confidence indicators for Belgium and for the euro area, and the statistical significance of the differences in timing … fact significantly lead turning points in the euro area from 1993 onwards. The leading nature of the Belgian industrial …

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