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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494158
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517172
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518202
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Rising concentration and wage inequality
Cortes, Guido Matias; Tschopp, Jeanne - 2020
Wage inequality has risen in many countries over recent decades. At the same time, production has become increasingly concentrated in a small number of firms. In this paper, we show that these two phenomena are linked. Theoretically, we show that shocks that increase concentration will also lead...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257969
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Do processing times affect the distribution of asylum seekers across Europe?
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2020
We propose a new methodology to estimate empirically the input price-induced technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical change in China has been induced by sharp increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180316
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290644
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138985
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On the role of legislation as a driver of incentive management practices in Europe
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2025
This paper investigates one aspect of the structured management practices literature which has argued that exogenous legislative changes leading to reductions in union power (identified with the passage of RTW laws) serve to increase the use of management incentives practices often resisted by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015330255
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The well-being costs of immigration in Europe
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2025
internal, from east to west Europe. Although both the destination and origin countries could be affected, we find no effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015358600
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275384