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Social security strategies and redistributive effects in European social transfer systems
Kraus, Margit - 2000
This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...
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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA : a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer
Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999
comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average … bases). A concrete computation and comparison of the EATR of corporations and their shareholders in five different countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443402
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445955
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Factor mobility and fiscal policy in the EU : policy issues and analytical approaches
Wildasin, David E. - 1999
This paper outlines some of the implications of factor market integration for fiscal policy in the countries of the EU and for the EU itself. It draws particular attention to the dynamic dimensions of factor market integration, and identifies some of the many issues for further research on these...
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NHS reforms and the working lives of midwives and physiotherapists
Wilkinson, Frank; Bullock, Anna; Burchell, Brendan; … - 2007
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
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Coaching disadvantaged young people : evidence from firm level data
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school leavers aiming for higher education. This paper investigates whether a programme that supports firms to train...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394483
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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-countries
Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999
hope to obtain growth and employment impulses through more monetary stability, sceptics are anxious, since in their opinion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442518