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Validating SHARE in France with other French surveys : health and income data

Garrouste, Christelle; Godefroy, Pascal; Laferrère, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is cross national: the questionnaire is identical across all participating countries and, because of the modest size of the sample in each country, it is usually not feasible to proceed to solely national use of the data. Moreover, as...

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The distribution of adult training among European unemployed: Evidence from recent surveys

Badescu, Mircea; Garrouste, Christelle; Loi, Massimo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The importance of a highly skilled workforce has become increasingly relevant in the context of the European Union’s new strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth — ‘Europe 2020’. Policies encouraging wide participation in continuing training are therefore an important...

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School-to-work transitions in Europe: Paths towards a permanent contract

Garrouste, Christelle; Loi, Massimo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

difficulties faced by college and university graduates to find adequate employment. This study is concerned with analyzing the … speed of transition of students to permanent employment as a proxy of professional stability, and by identifying possible …) inactivity; (3)unemployment; (4) fixed-term/temporary employment; and (5) permanent employment (the 5th state being a non …

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Fertility decline, baby boom and economic growth

Murphy, Kevin M; Simon, Curtis; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate nature of the Baby Boom in the United States. There were...

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100 years of educational reforms in Europe: a contextual database

Garrouste, Christelle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This report presents the macro data on educational reforms collected for the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The first and chore part provides an analytical overview of the educational reforms that may have affected the skill level of Europe’s elderly population....

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Education and Long-Term Unemployment

Garrouste, Christelle; Kozovska, Kornelia; Arjona … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between education and long-term unemployment when considering regional economic differences and other relevant variables at the individual and at the local level, using data from the 2004-2006 EU-SILC (11 countries). The analysis has been run using both a...

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Childhood, Schooling and Income Inequality

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Garrouste, Christelle; Paccagnella, Omar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Parental or socioeconomic background plays an important role in determining employment outcomes during the individual …

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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights

Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper attempts to quantify the value of this discrimination....

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Economic growth In the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P.; Devereux, John; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present new data on real output per worker, schooling per worker, human capital per worker, real physical capital per worker for 168 countries. The output data represent all available data from Maddison. The physical capital data represent all available data from Mitchell. One major...

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Equilibrium and Optimal Fertility with Increasing Returns to Population and Endogenous Fertility

Cuberes, David; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We present a general equilibrium dynamic model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization but households face the...

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