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This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e....
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American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two phenomena using the American Time Use Survey and time-diary data from 5 other countries. Adjusting...
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We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy …, in Italy the number of people performing family care work is higher, also due to the larger population. Italians …. However, the huge difference in the value of unpaid family care work, which in Italy exceeds the value of Poland by about …
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countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …
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and Italy, taken as representative examples of continuous and isolated reforms, respectively. The estimated piecewise … compensation for the marked decrease in their first job durations. In Italy, employment stability of the new entrants of both sexes …
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International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
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characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
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, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income …
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