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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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The labour market impact of COVID-19: early evidence for a sample of enterprises from Southern Europe

Webster, Allan D.; Khorana, Sangeeta; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. The evidence and the analysis are provided at a time when the pandemic is still in progress. The...

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The European youth guarantee : labor market context, conditions and opportunities in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2015

This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …

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Public employment policies and regional unemployment differences

Caponi, Vincenzo - 2014

This paper contributes to the existing literature on public employment showing that the wage setting policy of the public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and unemployment. I look at the case of geographically homogeneous wages across regions with different private...

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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

countries. The aim of this paper is to analyze its determinants comparing the Italian case with Austria, Poland and the UK in a …

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The locking-in effect of subsidized jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - 2002

Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get locked-in, that is they reduce their effort to find a regular job. This paper uses an administrative dataset from the...

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Do active labor market policies help unemployed workers to find and keep regular jobs?

Ours, Jan C. van - 2000

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient...

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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …

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Technology, labour market institutions and early retirement: evidence from Finland

Yashiro, Naomitsu; Kyyrä, Tomi; Hwang, Hyunjeong; … - 2020

There are two major barriers to increasing employment of older workers. First, older workers engaged in codifiable, routine tasks are particularly prone to the risk of being displaced by computers and robots. Second, several countries have in place various labour market institutions that...

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Child poverty and family transfers in southern Europe

Matsaganis, Manos (contributor) - 2005

family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …

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