, 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 …

the estimate is much reduced within schools. This could be explained either by selection into schools or by measurement … error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the … original OLS estimates. Our results suggest that the peer effect is modestly large, measurement error is important in our …

marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark …

characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …