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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2013
This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe … difference across studies (data, selection or model estimation and specification). While the former exists but is shown to be … US, there is some evidence that both time effect and modeling choices affect estimates for Europe. …
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2012
substitution in their household production in Europe. …
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The century of education
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice - HAL - 2009
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007) database. The correlation between the two sets of average years of schooling in 1960 is equal to 0.96. We...
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The convergence process of compulsory schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - HAL - 2007
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has occurred across these countries since 1950. We argue that the major driver of this phenomenom is the...
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