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Does obesity hurt your wages more in Dublin than in Madrid? : Evidence from ECHP

D'Hombres, Beatrice (contributor); … - 2005

We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …

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Are the more educated receiving more training? : evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...

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Income taxes and the composition of pay

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); Comi, Simona (contributor); … - 2006

According to the standard principal-agent model, the optimal composition of pay should balance the provision of incentives with the individual demand for insurance. Do income taxes alter this balance? We show that the relative share of PRP on total pay is reduced by higher average taxes, and is...

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Laterborns don't give up : the effects of birth order on earnings in Europe

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - 2013

While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...

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The wage expectations of European college students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001

variation across universities and fields. We also examine the trade-off between expected starting wages and wage growth. In the …

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Does work-based learning facilitate the school to work transition? : evidence from an Italian reform

Bernardi, Martino; Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; … - 2024

In 2015, school-work alternation programmes (alternanza scuola lavoro) became compulsory in all Italian high schools, with the purpose of enabling students to combine theoretical learning at school with work-based learning. A distinctive feature of this reform was that the intensity of...

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The causal effect of education on health : what is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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The labour market effects of academic and vocational education over the life cycle : evidence from two British cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2015

-term disadvantages in terms of employment, wages or both. Using two UK cohort studies, that allow us to follow individuals for at least … disadvantage at later ages. For real net wages, the picture is more nuanced, with results that vary by cohort and educational level …

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School quality and family background in Italy

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the 1980s have had a significant impact on the educational attainment and the labor market returns of a...

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Selective schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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