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Living in rural areas and self-employment

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022

areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …

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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2009

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries we investigate households' attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in Southern countries, France and Belgium, where fewer households have a mortgage outstanding relative to...

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Why use ROSCAs when you can use banks? : theory and evidence from Ethiopia

Kedir, Abbi Mamo; Disney, Richard; Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011

Much of the existing literature on the use of informal credit arrangements such as ROSCAs (Rotating and Credit Saving Associations) theorises the use of such institutions as arising from market failures in the development of formal saving and credit mechanisms. As economic development proceeds,...

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How successful are banking sector reforms in emerging market economies? : evidence from impact of monetary policy on levels and structures of firm debt in India

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Kutan, Ali Mustafa; Majumdar, Sudipa - 2016

that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings. …

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The effect of employment protection legislation and financial market imperfections on investment : evidence from a firm-level panel of EU countries

Cingano, Federico; Leonardi, Marco; Messina, Julián; … - 2009

This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...

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Educational qualifications and wage inequality : evidence for Europe

Budría, Santiago (contributor); … - 2005

This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower secondary, upper secondary and tertiary education at different points of the wage distribution. We find that returns to...

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Employment dynamics of married women in Europe

Michaud, Pierre-Carl (contributor); … - 2005

We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using dynamic binary choice models with different initial...

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COVID-19 and the European education performance decline : a focus on primary school children's reading achievement between 2016 and 2021

Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Granato, Silvia - 2023

education performance decline in Europe by providing information on 20 year reading achievement trends, average performance … Europe by first comparing countries' education distributions between 2016 and 2021 and second by investigating changes in the …

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The "demise of the caregiving daughter"? : gender employment gaps and the use of formal and informal care in Europe

Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023

We revisit the universality of the "caregiving daughter effect", which holds that daughters tend to provide more care to their older parents than sons. Based on rich European data, we document evidence of such an effect in countries with large gender disparities in employment rates, where having...

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The hidden value of adult informal care in Europe

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana Prieto, Cristina - 2024

-term care (LTC) estimates. This paper estimates the net wellbeing value of adult IC in Europe, drawing on a wellbeing …

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