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Training in Europe
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
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Great expectations: The determinants of female university enrolment in Europe
Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011
changes in the surrounding context. We find that the share of working women with children below 5 and the share of women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274791
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Exploring international differences in rates of return to education: Evidence from EU SILC
Davia, Maria A.; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Connell, Philip, J. - 2009
This paper uses EU-SILC data from 2005 and 2006 to explore the hypothesis that international differences in rates of return to education reflect variations in the level of risk associated with educational investments. While there was some evidence to support this hypothesis with regards to...
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A tanári jellemzők hatása a tanulói teljesítményre: Európai eredmények a TIMSS adatok alapján
Hermann, Zoltán - 2011
, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS …
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Returns to Education in Europe – Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey
Middendorf, Torge - 2008
We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...
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Gender-specific effects of unemployment on family formation: a cross-national perspective
Schmitt, Christian - 2008
the UK where work-family conflicts are the cause of high opportunity costs of motherhood, and the gender-specific division …This paper investigates the impact of unemployment on the propensity to start a family. Unemployment is accompanied by … bad occupational prospects and impending economic deprivation, placing the well-being of a future family at risk. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271078
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The Impact of Cohort Size and Local Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation in Europe
Middendorf, Torge - 2007
individual factors like the educational level of one's parents play a decisive role in determining the human capital accumulation … of the children, the cohort size as well as the local labor market seem to have a significant impact, too. This paper … Community Household Panel. Estimation results suggest that neither the size of the birth cohort nor the local unemployment rate …
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Risk attitudes and investment decisions across European countries: are women more conservative investors than men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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Arbeitszeitwünsche von Frauen und Männern liegen näher beieinander als tatsächliche Arbeitszeiten
Holst, Elke - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 14/15, pp. 209-215
In Deutschland liegen die von abhängig Beschäftigten gewünschten Wochenarbeitszeiten im Durchschnitt zwischen knapp 30 Stunden (Frauen) und 40 Stunden (Männer). Sehr lange Wochenarbeitszeiten sind weder für eine Mehrheit von Frauen noch für Männer attraktiv; diesen Befund findet man auch...
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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...
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