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The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona - 2013

Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform cohorts of private sector employees and estimate that adding one year to minimum retirement age...

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The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2013

education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat early school leaving is a difficult task that requires both the …

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Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - 2013

because of their higher education, laterborns quickly catch up by switching earlier and more frequently to better paying jobs …

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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime earnings in Europe

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

We estimate the effect of education on lifetime income in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in … years of education using reforms of compulsory education in nine different countries, and find that individuals in rural … substantially higher returns to their additional education. We argue that the long-lasting beneficial effects of having books at …

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Does Mental Productivity Decline with Age? Evidence from Chess Players

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain-intensive profession. We show that less talented players tend to leave the game in the earliest phases of their career. When the effects of age on productivity vary with...

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The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat early school leaving is a difficult task that requires both the …

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The stairways to heaven: a model of career choice in sports and games, with an application to chess

Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio; Iwahashi, Roki; Rocco, … - 2008

We model individual careers in sports and games from initial entry to eventual exit or success as a discrete-choice, finite-horizon optimization problem. We apply this model to the international game of chess and study cross-country differences in the relative success of players. While we find...

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Non cognitive skills and personality traits: Labour market relevance and their development in education & training systems

Brunello, Giorgio; Schlotter, Martin - 2011

This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...

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Lost in transition? The returns to education acquired under communism 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall

Brunello, Giorgio; Crivellaro, Elena; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2010

education, and holds for eight CEE economies but not for the East Germans who have studied in the former German Democratic … Republic. We also find that post-secondary education acquired under communism yields higher, not lower, payoffs than similar … education in Western Europe. …

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Leadership at school: Does the gender of siblings matter?

Brunello, Giorgio; De Paola, Maria - 2012

education matters more for these behaviors in the US than in Japan, and that in the latter country the oldest son or daughter …

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