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build resilience and those who will not. Despite costly labor-market adjustments due to increased international trade over … of developing chronic illness via job insecurity, job loss and occupational change, an increased reliance on social …
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primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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learn remotely are more likely to repeat grades and end their education early, especially where grades repetition is more … common: Spain, Germany, and Italy. Education policies should be designed accordingly. …
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This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …
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surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …
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This paper estimates the impact of the Free Education Policy, a major education reform implemented in rural China in … that an additional semester of exposure to the Free Education Policy reduces the intergenerational transmission of parent …
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Whether or not immigration negatively affects the labor market outcomes of natives is an ongoing debate. One of the … recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously allocated to districts and largely excluded from the labor market. Using panel … additional labor in service, public administration, and social work. As a consequence, we also observe a significant reduction in …
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Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country fixed effects are added to panel … estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries - Austria; Belgium … predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months in advance based on individuals' fears of unemployment, their perceptions …
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This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well …. Topics covered include the estimation of non-pecuniary costs of unemployment, unemployment over time, the role of others …' unemployment, spill-over effects, and re-employment, among others. …
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their labor market outcomes affected, while workers working in proximity to coworkers are more affected. The unemployment … employment and wages in the United States. Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we document that COVID-19 increased the unemployment … rate, decreased hours of work and labor force participation, especially for younger workers, non-white, not married and …
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