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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2002
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … ?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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Inequality, public opinion, and redistribution
Kenworthy, Lane; McCall, Leslie - 2007
According to the 'median-voter' hypothesis, greater inequality in the market distribution of earnings or income tends to produce greater generosity in redistributive policy. We outline the steps in the causal chain specified by the hypothesis and attempt to assess these steps empirically. Prior...
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267998
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International business cycle spillovers
Yilmaz, Kamil - 2009
, throughout the period of analysis, the U.S. (1980s and 2000s) and Japan (1970s and 2000s) have been the major transmitters of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277269
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Methoden der Steuerschätzung im internationalen Vergleich
Büttner, Thiess; Kauder, Björn - 2008
Über die Methoden, die in anderen Industriestaaten bei der Steuerschätzung angewandt werden, ist in Deutschland sehr …
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Social protection of non-standard workers and the self-employed during the pandemic country chapters: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Sweden
Spasova, Slavina (contributor); Ghailani, Dalila (contributor) - 2021
. 2021), this edited volume comprises eight country case studies: Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal …, Romania and Sweden. [...] …
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Health and disability insurance
Börsch-Supan, Axel - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 4, pp. 349-362
Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...
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Internationaler Vergleich der Systeme zur Besteuerung der Land- und Forstwirtschaft
Parsche, Rüdiger; Haug, Peter; Marcelo, Antonio; Nam, … - 2001
as Canada, the United States and Japan. In this context, it is particularly stressed that, instead of applying actual …
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The effect of Kyoto emission targets on domestic CO2 emissions: A synthetic control approach
Almer, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2012
, Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Japan by using a synthetic control approach. With the exception of Great …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316044