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This paper documents the existence and main patterns of inter-industry wage differentials across a large number of industries for 8 EU countries (Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, and Spain) at two points in time (in general 1995 and 2002) and explores possible...
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This paper uses information from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures, in around 15,000 firms in 15 European Union countries, to investigate the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence suggests...
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This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show the existence of large wage differentials among workers with the same observed characteristics...
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changes in the observed characteristics of native workers, particularly a rising level of education, are responsible for … primary and tertiary education and are primarily due to rising labour demand. The negative immigrant-native wage gaps are … on increasing returns to education of native workers along the wage distribution. The returns are higher in 2006 than in …
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The number of variables related to long-run economic growth is large compared with the number of countries. Bayesian model averaging is often used to impose parsimony in the cross-country growth regression. The underlying prior is that many of the considered variables need to be excluded from...
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European Union in the field of education. Covering the years 2001 to 2003, the study provides a comparative analysis of the … school, university and vocational education across the EU Member States. Besides this, an overview of good practices shows … States. School attainment and the quality of education have a decisive impact on the pupils' future employment opportunities …
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education. In this context, the study aims at providing up to date information on student mobility in secondary and tertiary … level education and in vocational training. The study evaluates the extent of student mobility into and out of individual EU …
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education received. …
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