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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

- 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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The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy During the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis

Piazzalunga, Daniela - 2016

The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU …

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Growing Out of the Crisis : Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy

Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013

Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With … an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an …-membership. Instead, Greece exports only its nation's talent, with low returns. To become prosperous, the country must better capitalize …

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Inequality and Poverty in Greece : Changes in Times of Crisis

Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2017

The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment rate exceeded 27%. The paper explores the effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of...

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The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries

Paulus, Alari - 2009

International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...

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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss Across Countries

Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo Maria; Barcelo, Cristina - 2022

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

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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain

Bentolila, Samuel - 2010

This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before the crisis were both around 8%. Yet, in France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage...

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More Alike than Different : The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and after the Crisis

Agnese, Pablo - 2011

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...

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Labour Market Reallocation Effects of COVID-19 Policies in Spain : A Tale of Two Recessions

Diaz, Antonia; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jáñez, Álvaro; … - 2023

This paper studies short-time work arrangements (ERTEs) when aggregate risk is partially sector-specific. In Spain, the Great Recession and the pandemic recession (aka the Great Contagion) can both be understood as being driven partially by large sector-specific shocks. However, the latter shows...

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Empirical Modeling of Deprivation Contagion among Social Exclusion Dimensions (Using MCMC Methods)

Poggi, Ambra - 2007

Economic theory and empirical evidence clearly show that social exclusion dimensions are inter-related. Notwithstanding that, dimensions are usually assumed independent from one another in the economics literature. In this paper we explore the inter-dependency of social exclusion dimensions and...

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