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This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation in Spain between 1994 and 2014. After showing the U-shaped relationship between employment share growth and job’s percentile in the wage distribution, I use the task approach to investigate the main determinants behind job...
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-for training. Both channels lead to a decline in TFP. We test these implications in a large panel of Spanish manufacturing firms …
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The article examines the capacity of four medium-sized cities in Southern Europe, concerning the current situation of their assets (agglomeration economies, urban infrastructures, factors of labor and cost, etc.), the degree of development policies implementation and effectiveness by local...
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countries: Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal. Creative local production systems are identified in these … show that creative industries are more important in some countries like Italy and the United Kingdom, and that their …
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Spain and Italy using similar methodologies and to evaluate their application to other European countries. The results allow … employment), and 81 FUR and 86 DMA in Italy (70% of total population and employment). …
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risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …
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pay discrimination in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used …
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penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … remains unexplained by differences in observed characteristics (except in Italy). Overall, results suggest that policy …
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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European context comparing results from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Using these large and comparable data sets, our logit … employment. Similar results were found for fathers in Spain and Italy. Perhaps the most striking result is the very strong …
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