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The Regional Anatomy of School Dropouts in Spain : The Role of the Industry Structure of Local Labour Markets
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2020
A number of studies have examined the impact of local labor market conditions on school dropout. However, none of them have considered the role of the industry structure. We construct data for a panel of Spanish regions and identify the effect of local labor markets using a variation of the...
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?
O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers … penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 percent of male part-timer's wage in Spain, to 24 percent in Belgium, to …
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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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Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts
Nieuwenhuis, Jaap - 2017
The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class structures of societies and in the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. We study the...
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The Effect of Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Household Spending
Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris; Gorodnichenko, … - 2021
Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021
-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household Panel for Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., a … unemployed which offer a pathway to early retirement such as, Germany and Spain, older displaced workers exhibit lower re …
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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 …
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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 …
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Old‐Age Employment and Hours of Work Trends : Empirical Analysis for Four European Countries
Aliaj, Arjeta - 2016
For the last two decades, the increase of employment among cohorts of individuals aged 50+ has been a policy objective on the European employment agenda. The present paper takes stock of the situation as observed in Belgium over the time period 1997-2011. First, we provide analysis on the...
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Lifting the Burden : State Care of the Elderly and Labor Supply of Adult Children
Løken, Katrine Vellesen - 2014
In this paper, we use a 1998 reform in the federal funding of local home-based care for the elderly in Norway to examine the effects of formal care expansion on the labor supply decisions and mobility of middle-aged children. Our main finding is a consistent and significant negative impact of...
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