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Baird, Katherine - 2014

How adequately did governments protect their citizens over the Great Recession? The recent recession, the worst since the Great Depression, provides an opportune moment to investigate the adequacy and fairness of countries' responses to an economic crisis. Using household-level LIS data from...

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Housing and the residential integration of immigrants in Luxembourg and the EU-15

Fetzer, Joel S. - 2010

continent as a whole (Musterd and van Kempen 2009). So how well are immigrants integrated into Luxembourg's metropolitan areas …

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Economic and occupational integration of newcomers

Fetzer, Joel S. - 2010

This paper summarizes the economic context of immigration in Luxembourg before examining the determinants of individual … nationality of one's parents do. Cross-nationally, Luxembourg does not have an admirable record on unemployment or income for … main source of such intergenerational mobility is Luxembourg's sustained economic growth. …

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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2013

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study …

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Policies to reduce child poverty : child allowances vs. tax exemptions for children

Pressman, Steven - 2011 - Revised on July 2011

This paper discusses the regressive nature of tax exemptions for children compared to child allowances and estimates the decline in child poverty in several developed countries due to child allowances. The paper then estimates the decline in child poverty in the US due to tax exemptions for...

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