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We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical …
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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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Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...
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penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … remains unexplained by differences in observed characteristics (except in Italy). Overall, results suggest that policy …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …
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set in the metalworking industry with labor market histories of metalworkers drawn from Social Security records in Italy … evidence for earlier periods is mixed in Italy, the results do not support the view that the wage structure reflects labor …
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Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...
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professorships in all academic disciplines in two countries, Italy and Spain. These applications were assessed by 8,000 evaluators …
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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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