, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … that the raw gap in hourly gross pay amounts to 16 percent of male part-timer's wage in Spain, to 24 percent in Belgium, to …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent … global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates among other developed economies. Spain and … Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour …

women. Third, women who work in Italian universities tend to have less citations than men who work in Italy. However, the …

levels over time in Italy. However, focusing on equality of circumstances, we show that there is still a persistent …