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countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …
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tax morale within three multicultural European countries, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain, a choice that allows far more …
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In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the individual educational outcome. The hypothesis that we test is whether parents? resources matter for...
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non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low … can be seen from high shares of self-employed and part-timers, as well as temporary workers. Finally, Belgium has large …
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national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams to score in the last minute - including stoppage time. However, for Germans this comes at a cost. Germany is more …
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) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same variety of capitalism, we provide evidence that small …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical …
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This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level and by employing three different indicators of similarity of sectoral structure, it improves on...
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The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
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The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of active ageing. Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...
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secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …
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