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Health Risk Factors among the Older European Populations: Personal and Country Effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum …

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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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Barriers to Entry, Deregulation and Workplace Training

Bassanini, Andrea; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We develop a theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of barriers to entry on workplace training. Our theoretical model yields ambiguous predictions on the sign of this relationship. On the one hand, given the number of firms, a deregulation reduces profits per unit of output, and...

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Unravelling Secularization: An International Study

Neuman, Shoshana; Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...

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Workplace Training in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Booth, Alison; Brunello, Giorgio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD … product market competition. We ask whether there is a case for under-provision of training in Europe and examine alternative …

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