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. Perceived educational returns, economic preferences ("consumerism") and sociopolitical attitudes ("individualism") adapt quickly …
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The Bologna process aims at creating a European Higher Education Area where intercountry mobility of students and staff, as well as workers holding a degree, is facilitated. While several aspects of the process deserve wide public support, the reduction of the length of the first cycle of...
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enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU …
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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian … workers differs markedly from the effects of more traditional forms of assistance to Haiti, in three ways: The economic …
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and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an …
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Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related training. Specifically, we employ difference-indifferences identification strategies using control...
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been influential in formulating a strict drug policy in many western countries. Individual differences in proneness and … different policy implications. We propose a Bayesian estimation and predictive framework to analyze the effects and relative … importance of previous cannabis use, proneness and accessibility factors on hard drug initiation and to explore potential policy …
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Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …
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We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation...
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