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The gender aspect of immigrants' assimilation in Europe

Lee, Tae Hoon; Peri, Giovanni; Viarengo, Martina - 2020

The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence between immigrants and natives and examining this under-studied dimension in a comprehensive study...

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Interventions with positive side-effects: COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions and infectious diseases in Europe

Kaiser, Micha; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; … - 2020

To assess the efficacy of Covid-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) on infectious disease containment in Europe …

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Loneliness and social isolation: an unequally shared burden in Europe

D'Hombres, Beatrice; Barjaková, Martina; Schnepf, … - 2021

offers a comparative overview of the incidence and determinants of loneliness and social isolation in Europe in the pre …-COVID-19 period. The empirical results indicate that 8.6% of the adult population in Europe suffer from frequent loneliness and … 20.8% from social isolation, with eastern Europe recording the highest prevalence of both phenomena. Trends over time do …

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Learning loss and educational inequalities in Europe: mapping the potential consequences of the COVID-19 crisis

Blaskó, Zsuzsa; Costa, Patricia; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2021

-19 crisis across Europe. We obtain the relative trajectories of children's learning loss and its unequal distribution … on 4th graders' school achievements indicate that throughout Europe educational inequalities between and within countries …

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With a little help from my mother : the matrilineal advantage in European grand parenting

Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2021

This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent - grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 … stronger for grandmothers than for grandfathers, and stronger in the more conservative societies of Southern Europe, where …

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The duration of the school-to-work transition in Italy and in other European countries: a flexible baseline hazard interpretation

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella - 2021

Purpose: The Italian school-to-work transition (STWT) is astonishingly slow and long in comparison to the other EU countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a gender perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The...

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Asylum recognition rates in Europe: persecution, policies and performance

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2021

A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a …

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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020

The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...

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Corporate hierarchies under employee representation

Belloc, Filippo; Burdín, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

This paper analyzes whether workplace employee representation (ER) affects the design of firm hierarchies. We rationalize the role of ER within a knowledge-based model of hierarchies, where the firm's choice of hierarchical layers depends on the trade-off between communication and knowledge...

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Trends in absolute income mobility in North America and Europe

Manduca, Robert; Hell, Maximilian; Adermon, Adrian; … - 2020

and Europe. Rates and trends in absolute mobility varied dramatically across countries during this period: the US and …

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