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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities

Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...

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Education policies and migration across European countries

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016

This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...

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Government education expenditures, pre-primary education and school performance : a cross-country analysis

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2018

Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...

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Policies to create and destroy human capital in Europe

Heckman, James J.; Jacobs, Bas - 2009

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

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Living in rural areas and self-employment

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022

areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …

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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016

This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...

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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …

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