, 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 …

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 …

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 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 … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain …

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 …

-reported health and mental health in Greece. The specifications suggest that unemployment results in lower health and the … periods of high unemployment, suggesting that the unemployment crisis in Greece is more devastating as it concerns more people …, women are more negatively affected by unemployment in relation to their health and mental health statuses than are men.Greece …

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries …

fiscal and banking crises in Ireland emerged. The question we address in this paper is whether expected retirement ages of … over in Ireland were interviewed about a wide range of issues including standard socio-economic items such as labour force …

private sector? This paper investigates these issues using data and a tax-benefit simulation for Ireland, a country which …

This paper analyzes the impact of changes in macroeconomic conditions on the income distribution in Spain. Using …

While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is … reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the …