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Unemployment, education and earnings growth

Brunello, Giorgio - 2001

I use the European Community Household Panel to ask whether unemployment affects the relationship between education and subsequent earnings growth. show that individuals with more education have more to lose in terms of subsequent earnings growth from the experience of unemployment. This result...

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On price-setting for identical products in markets without formal trade barriers

Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2001

EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law of one price does not hold. 2) Country-specific effects of non …

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EU regional policy : vertical fiscal externalities and matching grants

Fenge, Robert; Wrede, Matthias - 2004

Although decision processes at the EU level are highly complex and often require unanimity, explicit side payments … EU regional policy as a substitute for explicit side payments and asks from a normative and a positive point of view why …-wide task. It argues that the EU system of own resources creates positive vertical fiscal externalities. Hence, matching grants …

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The distributional impact of social transfers in the European Union : evidence from the ECHP

Heady, Christopher John; Mitrakos, Theodōros M.; … - 2001

Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the …

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Educating Europe

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

financed publicly only for those accepting also to share the returns. With EU enlargement, such reforms could generate a triple …

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Using Taylor rules to understand ECB monetary policy

Sauer, Stephan; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2003

Over the last decade, the simple instrument policy rule developed by Taylor (1993) has become a popular tool for evaluating monetary policy of central banks. As an extensive empirical analysis of the ECB s past behaviour still seems to be in its infancy, we estimate several instrument policy...

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Identifying population groups at high risk of social exclusion : evidence from the ECHP

Tsakloglou, Panos O.; Papadopoulos, Fotis - 2001

cumulative disadvantage" and attempts to identify population members at high risk of social exclusion in EU countries using the … quantitative differences across the EU. In almost all countries the looser the links of the individual or the household with the … risk of social exclusion in only a few southern EU countries. …

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Transfer fee regulations in European football

Feess, Eberhard; Mühlheußer, Gerd - 2002

We analyze the impact of three different transfer fee systems on payoffs, contract lengths, training and effort incentives in European football. The different regimes, being used until 1995 ("Pre-Bosman" or P), currently in use ("Bosman" or B), and recently approved ("Monti" or M) differ with...

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Protective or counter-productive? : labor market institutions and the effect of immigration on EU natives

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002

We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives from immigrant competition in the near term, but...

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Mobility within Europe : what do we (still not) know?

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … evidence on the determinants of intra-EU-migration by an analysis of the Eurobarometer. The paper concludes with an outline of …

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