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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
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and language tests and student desire to attend college. The comparison to pooled-OLS suggests that fixed effects correct …
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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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; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …
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France have flatter wealth gradients …
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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....
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- 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 … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …
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comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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