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"For one more year with you" : changes in compulsory schooling, education and the distribution of wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2007

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We find that compulsory school reforms significantly affect educational...

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What makes a young entrepreneur?

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper documents some of the patterns in modern microeconomic data on young people’s employment, attitudes and entrepreneurial behaviour. Among other sources, the paper uses the Eurobarometer Surveys; the Labour Force Surveys from Canada and the Current Population Survey in the United...

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The costs of early school leaving in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2013

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...

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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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Education as a tool for the economic integration of migrants

De Paola, Maria; Brunello, Giorgio - 2016

socio-economic background, in others (Finland, Austria, Belgium and Portugal) the factors driving the gap are more complex …

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The objective measurement of world-leading research

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

measure of, a nation's 'world-leading research'? Following a variant of a method developed in Oswald (2010), I examine … citations data on 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles over the Research Excellence Framework period 2008-2014. The UK … Research Assessment Exercise period 2001-2008. I conclude that it is possible to produce an objective measure of world …

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Is childcare bad for the mental health of grandparents? : evidence from SHARE

Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2016

We estimate the causal effects of regular and occasional grandchild care on the depression of grandmothers and grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and an instrumental variables strategy which exploits the variation in the timing of interviews...

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Workplace training in Europe

Bassanini, Andrea; Booth, Alison L.; Brunello, Giorgio; … - 2005

This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources--the CVTS, OECD data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in training incidence and relate these differences to the private costs and benefits of training, and to...

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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 significant, independently of gender. Given the nature of...

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Is training more frequent when wage compression is higher? : Evidence from the European community household panel

Bassanini, Andrea (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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