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Redistribution in the age of austerity: Evidence from Europe, 2006-13

Schneider, Markus P. A.; Kinsella, Stephen; Godin, Antoine - 2015

We examine the relationship between changes in a country's public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU's Statistics on Income and Living … rising inequality at the top. The data also weakly suggest a decrease in inequality at the bottom. The distributional impact …

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Growing differently: A structural classification for European NUTS-3 regions

Weber, Jan; Schulz, Jan - 2022

We document two novel stylized facts on European integration and cohesion. First, we show that the interregional income distribution, measured as GDP per capita at the NUTS-3 level, is bimodal for all considered years. Second, we demonstrate that this mixture of two log-normal distributions...

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Corporate Governance - Legal Fiction or Economic Reality?

Drobetz, Wolfgang - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2003

In the past few years, corporate governance has become a popular area of discussionin continental Europe. Having been a …

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International market entry strategies of EU and Asia-Pacific low fare airlines

Albers, Sascha; Heuermann, Caroline; Koch, Benjamin - 2009

. The results indicate that in Europe rather homogenous groups of LFA emerge with regard to their internationalization …

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From immigrants to fundamentalists: Changing portrayals of Muslim identities in Europe

Owers, Daphne - 2015

key for establishing an accurate picture of contemporary Muslim life in Europe, for unravelling Islamophobic myths, and …

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What do premiums paid for bank M&As reflect? The case of the European Union

Hagendorff, Jens; Hernando, Ignacio; Nieto, Maria J.; … - 2010

supervision and of deposit insurance regimes in Europe has measurable effects on takeover pricing. Stricter bank regulatory …

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The safety and soundness effects of bank M&A in the EU

Hagendorff, Jens; Nieto, Maria J.; Wall, Larry D. - 2012

This paper studies the impact of European bank mergers and acquisitions on changes in key safety and soundness measures of both acquirers and targets. We find that capitalization, profitability, and liquidity show signs of statistically and economically significant mean reversion for acquirers....

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Long-Run Effects of Childhood Shocks on Health in Late Adulthood: Evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe

Halmdienst, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2013

In this paper we address the long-run effects of childhood shocks on health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course approach and data from SHARE we estimate direct and indirect effects of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger on health outcomes after age fifty. Having lived in a...

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In-work benefits across Europe

Laun, Lisa - 2019

across Europe and summarizes the evidence of these schemes. The selected countries are France, the Netherlands, Germany …

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Immigration, jobs and employment protection: Evidence from Europe before and during the great recession

Francesco, D'Amuri; Peri, Giovanni - 2012

In this paper we analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs. We use data on fifteen Western European countries during the 1996-2010 period. We find that immigrants, by taking manual-routine type of occupations pushed natives towards more complex (abstract and...

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