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    <title>Co-movements between public and private wages in the EU: What factors and with what policy implications?</title>
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    <description>Title: Co-movements between public and private wages in the EU: What factors and with what policy implications?
Authors: Marzinotto, Benedicta; Turrini, Alessandro
Abstract: This paper assesses the relationship between public and private wages in the EU, as measured by general government and manufacturing compensations, respectively. We find that the long-run relation between the two is stronger when the government is a large employer. Manufacturing compensations are better aligned with productivity and unemployment when general government compensations, to which they generally respond, are set through bargaining. Finally, manufacturing compensations react in the same way whether those in the general government sector are increased or cut, a relation that seems to hold also under fiscal consolidation provided the government is a large employer.</description>
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    <title>Minimum income schemes in Europe: Is there a trade-off with activation policies?</title>
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    <description>Title: Minimum income schemes in Europe: Is there a trade-off with activation policies?
Authors: Iacono, Roberto
Abstract: This paper makes two contributions to the literature. First, by employing a macro-level institutional dataset on benefit levels for social assistance (SA) and minimum income protection (MIP) in 22 European countries in the period 1990-2013, I show that the adequacy of income support for low-income inactive individuals in European welfare states has been steadily decreasing since 1994. Second, the paper revisits empirically the hypothesis of a trade-off between the adequacy of out-of-work benefits and the public expenditure on active labor market policies (ALMPs). The empirical results of the fixed effects model show that the trade-off does not appear to be significant in any of the tested specifications. The results are robust to the introduction of a set of conventional controls related to the labor market.</description>
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    <title>Labour force participation elasticities and the move away from a flat tax: The case of Slovakia</title>
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    <description>Title: Labour force participation elasticities and the move away from a flat tax: The case of Slovakia
Authors: Senaj, Matus; Siebertova, Zuzana; Svarda, Norbert; Valachyova, Jana
Abstract: This paper provides a microeconometric analysis of labour force participation elasticities in Slovakia where we study the elasticity with respect to a unique tax reform whereby the flat tax was backtracked and replaced by a progressive tax. By estimating a probability model for labour force participation, we show that the low-skilled and females are groups that are particularly responsive to changes in income taxes and transfers. We perform a microsimulation analysis of two scenarios of flat-tax regime abolishment. We find that the recent departure from the flat-tax system in Slovakia in 2013, which introduced two tax brackets in personal income taxation, only negligibly reduced the average probability of being economically active at the extensive margin. A more significant average effect has been found in a hypothetical scenario with a similar fiscal revenue impact, simulating a departure from the flat-tax system by reintroducing five tax brackets. We show the different impacts of the two distinct scenarios of abolishing the flat tax on selected subgroups of the population.</description>
    <dc:date>2016-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Minimum income protection in the austerity tide</title>
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    <description>Title: Minimum income protection in the austerity tide
Authors: Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive; Van Mechelen, Natascha
Abstract: Scholarly literature is inconclusive on how economic crises impact on minimum income protection. Earlier studies found small increases in the generosity of safety nets at the onset of the crisis. Yet an increased focus on budget austerity substantially altered the social policy context. This paper assesses how minimum income floors weathered the austerity tide following the crisis using purpose-collected data for 23 EU countries. Generally, social assistance benefit trends did not deviate much from pre-crisis growth levels. Yet retrenchment did occur through more technical measures, the combined impact of which was quite significant in some countries.</description>
    <dc:date>2016-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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