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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 …
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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
Ichino, Andrea - 2011
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126145
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The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany
Chłoń-Domińczak, Agnieszka - 2018
countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926703
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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 Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043700
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046258
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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 …
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
, 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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996523