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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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The Effect of Education on Geographic Mobility : Incidence, Timing, and Type of Migration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kïrdar, Murat G.; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2021
education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide … causal effects of education on migration by reason for migration. We find that while education substantially increases the … incidence of migration among men, there is no evidence of an effect among women. Women, however, become more likely to migrate …
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Effect of Immigration on Depression Among Older Natives in Western Europe
Escarce, Jose - 2019
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower...
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The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian - 2018
We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922458
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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
de la Croix, David - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995608
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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
significantly less. Finally we ask economic migration leads to taller children. To answer that we estimate the influence of children …
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Living Arrangements in Western Europe : Does Cultural Origin Matter?
Giuliano, Paola - 2006
Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059086
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Effects of Labor Reallocation on Productivity and Inequality : Insights from Studies on Transition
Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2016
From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such a link appear at the expense of higher income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982122
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : A Theory
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325001
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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S
Borghans, Lex - 2010
Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first three years in the labor market, using unique uniform data covering 11 European countries and Japan....
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