Showing 1 - 10 of 80
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815729
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041426
Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549105
Governments face a potential trade-off between provision for the growing population in retirement and the support of working-age households with low income. Using EUROMOD-based microdata from 28 countries, we (a) quantify the redistribution to the pensioner and non-pensioner populations, (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012672270
Over the first half of March 2021, the majority of European governments suspended Astrazeneca's Vaxzevria vaccine as a precaution following media reports of rare blood clots. We analyse the impact of the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) March 18th statement assuring the public of the safety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585624
data from a representative survey, EU-SILC, and wefind a decreasing trend in subjective poverty in 16 of 28 countries … captured,and our results thus enrich the existing data on general poverty trends in the EU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590751
Income Question using data from a representative survey, EU-SILC. We find robust empirical evidence of decreasing trends in … subjective poverty in 16 of 28 EU countries. We conjecture that trends in subjective poverty may reflect changes in societies … trends in the EU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012626746
We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using … microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599547
This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603411
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/10013284869