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More Schooling, More Children : Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita - 2011

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

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Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other …

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A European Perspective on Long‐Term Unemployment

Eichhorst, Werner - 2015

In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006–2016

Jauer, Julia - 2018

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …

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Occupational Exposure to Contagion and the Spread of Covid-19 in Europe

Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020

Social contacts are a key transmission channel of infectious diseases spread by the respiratory or close-contact route, such as COVID-19. There is no evidence, however, on the question of whether the nature and the organisation of work affect the spread of COVID-19 in different countries. I have...

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Is Well-Being U-Shaped Over the Life Cycle?

Blanchflower, David G. - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...

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Routine and Ageing? The Intergenerational Divide in the Deroutinisation of Jobs in Europe

Lewandowski, Piotr - 2017

This paper analyses the age dimension of changes in the task composition of jobs in 12 European countries between 1998 and 2014. We use the approach proposed by Autor et al. (2003) and Acemoglu & Autor (2011), and combine O*NET occupation content data with EU-LFS individual data to construct...

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Occupational Mobility in Europe : Extent, Determinants and Consequences

Bachmann, Ronald - 2019

We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change...

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Crowding Out of Long-Term Care Insurance : Evidence from European Expectations Data

Costa-Font, Joan - 2014

Long-term care (LTC) is the largest insurable risk that old-age individuals face in most western societies. However, the demand for LTC insurance is still ostensibly small in comparison to the financial risk, which is reflected in the formation of expectations of insurance coverage. One...

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia - 2014

new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe.Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …

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