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This paper estimates the impact of public investment on regional economic growth and convergence at the NUTS III level … capita on regional economic growth – but not on convergence – which also generates considerable spillover effects. However …
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Price and output level convergence between new member states and the existing EU necessarily implies inflation and … nominal criteria are suspended, the policy instruments required to achieve euro convergence are in the hands of the individual …
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focused on the administrative convergence, considering that it is impossible to conceive a strong European construction … tries to emphasize few signs of convergence between Romanian and Bulgarian employment policy …
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Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The … the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional convergence is estimated quite precisely and is large, at 3 …
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patterns of convergence and divergence of European minimum income schemes in the period 1992/2001-2012. We expand on previous … studies on convergence of social assistance schemes in at least three ways. First, this paper provides a recent and detailed … contextualize our findings with regard to convergence and to clarify the underlying policy measures. Finally this paper covers a …
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measured with national poverty lines, the crisis seems to have halted, but not (yet) substantially reversed the convergence …
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We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....
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large increases in minimum income benefits has been pursued, leading to a remarkable convergence of relative benefit levels. …
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Should the EU be involved in the governance of minimum income protection, and if it should, in which role precisely? This question raises a complex policy conundrum. We focus on a proposal by the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) for an EU Framework Directive on Minimum Income Protection, in...
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convergence of the public policy considers the description of how various factors and economic, social and political mechanisms … elements of the convergence of national public policies between Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Croatia in the labor market …
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