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division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …
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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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characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
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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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Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at the lower end of the hierarchy, as quantile...
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marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and … France have flatter wealth gradients …
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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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- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …
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variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that …
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