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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis

Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …

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Fertility and female employment dynamics in Europe : the effect of using alternative econometric modeling assumptions

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2008

We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and modeling assumptions related to initial conditions, unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation...

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The roots of low European employment : family culture?

Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005

OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: prime-age women and younger and older individuals. This paper argues that family labor supply...

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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?

Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005

model does not support the view expressed by Davis (1998) that global equilibrium links insulate the US labor market from …

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The obesity epidemic in Europe

Sanz de Galdeano, Anna (contributor) - 2005

This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...

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The effectiveness of European active labor market policy

Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006

Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation … than contextual factors such as labor market institutions or the business cycle, it is almost exclusively the program type … Market Policy ; program evaluation ; meta analysis …

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...

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Why are more redistributive social security systems smaller? : A median voter approach

Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor); … - 2005

We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an "efficiency-redistribution" trade-off to be resolved by political process. The inefficiency of social security...

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Youth emancipation and perceived job insecurity of parents and children

Becker, Sascha O.; Bentolila, Samuel; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2005

The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay emancipation. We provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries...

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Welfare migration in Europe and the cost of a harmonised social assistance

De Giorgi, Giacomo (contributor); … - 2006

The enlargement of the European Union has increased concerns about the role of generous welfare transfers in attracting migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 countries of the pre-enlargement Union and finds a significant but small effect of the generosity of...

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