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Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents' Social Network
Fumarco, Luca - 2018
We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account for...
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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU : What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon … tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more recent stress on the importance of increasing the human capital … education, to favour smoother school-to-work transitions. Apprenticeships schemes, fiscal incentives to hire the youth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766736
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Euro, Crisis and Unemployment : Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?
Ghoshray, Atanu - 2016
reforms are not effective enough to solve the youth unemployment problem across Europe. We point to educational policies that … afterwards. Beyond the well documented asymmetries across countries, we uncover different responses of adult and youth … unemployment rates. While adult unemployment is more prone to experience structural breaks, youth unemployment is more sensitive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990858
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The European Youth Guarantee : Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy
Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In …
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Home-Leaving Decisions of Daughters and Sons
Chiuri, Maria Concetta - 2010
In spite of relevant differences between countries, a common international pattern emerges: daughters leave parental homes earlier than sons. Drawing upon the European Community Household Panel, we explore the impacts of various factors that affect daughters' and sons' home-leaving decisions....
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The Impact of Teenage Motherhood on the Education and Fertility of Their Children : Evidence for Europe
Navarro, Maria - 2012
This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity...
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The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe
Patrinos, Harry A.; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023
Countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia are in their third decade of independence. What impact does this have … education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition countries in Europe and Central Asia are analyzed using panel data analysis and …
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Mental Health in European Economics Departments
Macchi, Elisa; Sievert, Clara; Bolotnyy, Valentin; … - 2023
We study the mental health of graduate students and faculty at 14 Economics departments in Europe. Using clinically …
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Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants? Evidence from European Labor Markets
Sá, Filipa - 2010
High levels of employment protection reduce hiring and firing and have a theoretically ambiguous effect on the employment level. Immigrants, being new to the labor market, may be less aware of employment protection regulations and less likely to claim their rights, which may create a gap between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759354
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Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the effect of delaying the first child on the transition to the second birth differs both among...
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