NEP: New Economics Papers Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty Edited by: Maximo Rossi Universidad de la República Issue date: 2014-10-13 Papers: 5 NEP is sponsored by the Department of Economics, University of Auckland Business School. Access to full contents may be restricted. To subscribe/unsubscribe follow this link;lists.repec.org/mailman/options/nep-ltv In this issue we have: Policy for better mental health Richard Layard Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany Viktor STEINER; Kai-Uwe MUELLER A New Look at Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Compared to the US Daniel D. Schnitzlein IMMPA: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Framework for the Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategies AGENOR Pierre-Richard; IZQUIERDO Alejandro; FOFACK Hippolyte The Geographical Concentration of Unemployment: a Male-female Comparison in Spain Olga Alonso-Villar; Coral Del Rio Contents. Policy for better mental health Date: 2014-10 By: Richard Layard URL: d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepcnp:429&r=ltv Treating mental illness should be a top national priority, especially as proven psychological therapies effectively cost nothing. Richard Layard explains how CEP research has led to a new deal for mental health - but much remains to be done. Mental illness has much greater economic costs than physical illness - but evidence-based ways of treating mental health problems have no net cost to the Exchequer. Keywords: mental health, psychological therapy, government policy Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany By: Viktor STEINER Kai-Uwe MUELLER URL: d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ekd:002596:259600160&r=ltv A New Look at Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Compared to the US Date: 2014 By: Daniel D. Schnitzlein URL: d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:diw:diwsop:diw_sp689&r=ltv Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can reproduce the standard result from the literature, which states that the German intergenerational elasticity estimates are lower than those for the US. However, based on highly comparable data, even a reasonable degree of variation in the sampling rules leads to similar estimates in both countries. I find no evidence for nonlinearities along the fathers earnings distribution. In contrast, the analysis shows that mobility is higher for the sons at the lowest quartile of the sons earnings distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the upper middle part of the earnings distribution. The corresponding pattern is clearly less pronounced in the US. Keywords: intergenerational mobility, SOEP, CNEF, Germany, US JEL: J62 IMMPA: A Quantitative Macroeconomic Framework for the Analysis of Poverty Reduction Strategies By: AGENOR Pierre-Richard IZQUIERDO FOFACK Hippolyte URL: d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ekd:003307:330700003&r=ltv The Geographical Concentration of Unemployment: a Male-female Comparison in Spain By: Olga Alonso-Villar Coral Del Rio URL: d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ekd:002836:283600002&r=ltv This nep–ltv issue is ©2014 by Maximo Rossi. It is provided as is without any express or implied warranty. It may be freely redistributed in whole or in part for any purpose. If distributed in part, it must include this copyright notice. It may not be sold, or placed in something else for sale. General information on the NEP project can be found at nep.repec.org/. For comments please write to the director of NEP, Marco Novarese at < director @ nep point repec point org >. _______________________________________________ nep-ltv mailing list [email protected] lists.repec.org/mailman/listinfo/nep-ltv
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