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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

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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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2021

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021

France have flatter wealth gradients …

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Old‐Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends : Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries

Aliaj, Arjeta - 2016

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals

Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...

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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Akay, Alpaslan - 2018

the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany …, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual well-being information for 750,000 individual x year observations …

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