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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

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Years of schooling, human capital and the body mass index of European females

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita - 2009

We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime income

Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals …

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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011

In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...

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Bridge jobs in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Langella, Monica - 2012

had different effects in Central / Northern Europe (Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Sweden) and in Mediterranean … Europe (Italy and Spain). In the North, transitions into bridge jobs have increased, with no significant effect on …

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Does obesity hurt your wages more in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP

d'Hombres, Beatrice; Brunello, Giorgio - 2005

We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically significant, independently of gender. Given the nature of...

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Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP

Béatrice d’Hombres; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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The Wage Expectations of European College Students

Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio - 2001

replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …

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