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An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives Using Micro Data

Dolls, Mathias - 2014

We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the...

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Micro and Macro Determinants of Health : Older Immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie F. - 2015

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...

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Well-Being, Poverty and Labor Income Taxation : Theory and Application to Europe and the U.S

Maniquet, Francois - 2016

In a model in which agents differ in wages and preferences over labor time-consumption bundles, we study labor income tax schemes that alleviate poverty. To avoid conflict with individual well-being, we require redistribution to take place between agents on both sides of the poverty line...

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Sizing it Up : Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Constant, Amelie F. - 2011

While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising … grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old … Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to the labor markets. Visceral fear rendered more than one in …

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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...

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Fiscal Union in Europe? Redistributive and Stabilising Effects of an EU Tax-Benefit System

Bargain, Olivier - 2012

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … countries. These effects depend on income levels and the structures of the existing national tax and transfer systems. The EU …

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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …

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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe : For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Constant, Amelie F. - 2009

Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...

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An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges

Constant, Amelie F. - 2014

The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...

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Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes...

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