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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … have similar geographical differences in firm productivity – with the North more productive than the South in Italy and the … West more productive than the East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870203
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129942
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Intra-Household Time Allocation : Gender Differences in Caring for Children
Garcia-Mainar, Inmaculada - 2009
characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159340
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780276
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Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Hübler, Olaf - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147545
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Time Allocation between Work and Family Over the Life-Cycle : A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart; Mencarini, Letizia; … - 2021
division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316675
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316960
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317552
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996523