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in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in … and school resources - as well as more targeted policies. While our focus is mainly on Europe, we also consider important …
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While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...
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in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in … and school resources - as well as more targeted policies. While our focus is mainly on Europe, we also consider important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417202
grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and an instrumental variables strategy which …
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In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...
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) productivity. -- wages ; body mass index ; Europe …
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in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in … and school resources – as well as more targeted policies. While our focus is mainly on Europe, we also consider important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071747
While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we show that firstborns enjoy on average a 13.7 percent premium over laterborns in their wage at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073856
This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent - grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 … stronger for grandmothers than for grandfathers, and stronger in the more conservative societies of Southern Europe, where …
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Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether financing constraints affect employers' investments in employee training and physical capital differently. We measure financing constraints with an index that combines survey and balance sheet data. We instrument this index with...
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