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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries

Markaki, Yvonni - 2014

This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...

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Minimum wage systems and earnings inequalities : does institutional diversity matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2014

wages and coverage rates, and (c) hand-collected information on minimum rates from more than 1,100 sectoral-level agreements …

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Reward effects and incentive effects on the labor market : empirical evidence for European countries

Sell, Friedrich L.; Öllinger, Michael - 2017

In this investigation, a political economy model of the labor market is proposed, where unions offer their (old and new …) affiliates the combinations between the average real wage level and the standard deviation of wages or salaries. Globalization … and other forces, however, have made it recently more difficult to the unions to pursue their policy in the backdrop of a …

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Gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility

Bárcena Martín, Elena; Medina-Claros, Samuel; … - 2020

This paper explores potential gendered effects of employment protection on earnings mobility, differentiating between upward and downward movements. We conduct a micro-macro mobility analysis for 23 European countries over the economic downturn period 2008–2014. The results confirm that,...

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Social and fiscal impacts of statutory minimum wages in EU countries : a microsimulation analysis with EUROMOD

Grünberger, Klaus; Narazani, Edlira; Filauro, Stefano; … - 2021

This paper analyses the first-round effects of hypothetical minimum wage increases on social outcomes in 21 EU countries with a statutory national minimum wage based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household survey...

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Social and fiscal impacts of statutory minimum wages in EU countries : a microsimulation analysis with EUROMOD

Grünberger, Klaus; Narazani, Edlira; Filauro, Stefano; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-39

This paper analyzes the effects of hypothetical MW (HMW) increases on social and fiscal outcomes in 21 European Union (EU) countries with a statutory national MW (NMW) based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household...

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Perceived income positions and attitudes towards EU inequality : a cross-country survey experiment

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Wang, Hequn; Jäger, Julian; Beblo, … - 2022

We examine the relationship between perceived income positions and attitudes towards inequality at a supranational-level. Conducting a survey in four EU Member States (Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden), we confirm that their citizens misperceive their own income position in the EU. Once we...

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The impact of minimum wages on income inequality in the EU

Filauro, Stefano; Grünberger, Klaus; Narazani, Edlira - 2023

adopted EU Commission's proposal for a Directive on adequate minimum wages was supported by a detailed analysis of the social … detectable also in market incomes. In turn, the withdrawal of social benefits because of higher minimum wages seems to neutralise …

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A vibrant European labor market with full employment

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We name this scenario “vibrant.” It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European...

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A vibrant European labor market with full employment

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 10, pp. 1-24

We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, income inequality is reduced and the economies are more sustainable. We call this scenario "vibrant". It is contrasted with what would happen if present policies continue within the European Union...

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