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lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other …
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This paper analyzes the existence of short- and long-term intergenerational correlation of employment and self-employment in European countries, using data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Using longitudinal data for the period 2003-2016, fixed effect estimates...
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We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...
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If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 countries, this paper provides cross-sectional evidence that overweight perceptions and dieting are...
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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 child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to …
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-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in … differential impact on partnership formation rates in Northern and Southern Europe due to the different social norms regarding the … partnership formation rates in Southern Europe …
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A modern statistical literature argues that countries such as Denmark are particularly happy while nations like East Germany are not. Are such claims credible? The paper explores this by building on two ideas. The first is that psychological well-being and high blood-pressure are thought by...
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Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
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identify and determine the collaborative structure of economics research in Spain, with its primary communities and figures of …
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