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, 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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Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is analyzed whether qualification programs for employed workers in …
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both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where …
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administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …
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We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
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structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
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different labor market-regimes are selected as examples (Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Ireland, UK). Within these …
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assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark and Finland. The empirical evidence supports a dynamic approach to … dynamic panel-data wage equation and provide measures of the speed of adjustment in Belgium, Denmark and Finland. Further, we …
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We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US …
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The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the welfare state model and, especially, the family-friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries...
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