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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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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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Self-Employment and Parenthood : Exploring the Impact of Partners, Children and Gender
Aidis, Ruta; Wetzels, C.M.M.P - 2021
European context comparing results from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Using these large and comparable data sets, our logit … employment. Similar results were found for fathers in Spain and Italy. Perhaps the most striking result is the very strong …
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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
countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
Brown, Alessio J.G; Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
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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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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss
Hamermesh, Daniel; Myck, Michal; Oczkowska, Monika - 2022
By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the 'Dying Seconds' of International Football Matches
van Ours, Jan C. - 2010
national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms …
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