, 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 …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

from acquiring spoken English, an important skill with potentially high returns in the labor market. Using data from a … field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …

middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …

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 …

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries … across countries. We discuss some possible reasons for these differences based on labour market institutions …

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …

-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 …