one hand, and content and methodology of research on the other hand, cannot be separated easily. We use a unique example … findings. -- rhetoric ; gender wage differential ; discrimination …

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey … of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …

; health behaviors ; Europe …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …

Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … into the wage differential decompositions, two statistical methodologies are merged: the Oaxaca methodology and the Heckman …

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …