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The ant or the grasshopper? : the long-term consequences of unilateral divorce laws on savings of European households

Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Stella, Luca; Weiss, … - 2016

By allowing people to obtain divorce without the consent of their spouse, Unilateral Divorce Laws (UDLs) increase the risk of divorce. Using the staggered introduction of UDLs across European countries, we show that households exposed to UDLs for longer time accumulate more savings. This effect...

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The rise of the free movements : how posting shapes a hybrid single European labour market

Mussche, Ninke; Corluy, Vincent; Marx, Ive - 2016

Intra‐EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra‐EU labour … migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is … with high levels of short term service mobility. Service mobility/posting is as much a phenomenon of intra‐EU15 mobility …

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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?

Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017

This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...

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The changing nature of gender selection into employment : Europe over the Great Recession

Dolado, Juan J.; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Tarasonis, … - 2017

gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market …, traditionally disregarded, has increased. This is particularly the case in peripheral EU countries, where dramatic drops in male …

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Routine and ageing? : the intergenerational divide in the deroutinisation of jobs in Europe

Lewandowski, Piotr; Keister, Roma; Hardy, Wojciech; … - 2017

content data with EU-LFS individual data to construct five task content measures: non-routine cognitive analytical, non …

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How useful is the concept of skills mismatch?

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2017

incidence of various combinations of skills mismatch across the EU. Finally, we review the European Commission's country …

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Macroeconomic determinants of international migration to the UK

Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of "free movement" rights for EEA nationals). We find a...

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Spatial segregation and socio-economic mobility in European cities

Ham, Maarten van; Tammaru, Tiit; Vuijst, Elise de; … - 2016

Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low income people, often with an ethnic minority...

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Barriers to skill acquisition : evidence from English training in India

Jain, Tarun; Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - 2016

Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education - high unemployment trap in developing countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However, participation and completion rates in many of these...

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On the potential interaction between labour market institutions and immigration policies

Cigagna, Claudia; Sulis, Giovanni - 2015

Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...

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