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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...

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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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Wage Differentials across Sectors in Europe: An East-West Comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, Daphné - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...

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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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Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities: Does Institutional Diversity Matter?

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

across Europe. The analysis covers 18 countries over the period 2007-2009. Empirical results confirm the intuition of many …

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