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This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …
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overeducation rates include factors such as labour market risk, financial aid to university students, excess labour demand and … institutional factors. We find significant effects both for labour market structural imbalances and institutional factors. The … interpretation of the labour market. …
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We estimate the causal effects of regular and occasional grandchild care on the depression of grandmothers and grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and an instrumental variables strategy which exploits the variation in the timing of interviews...
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This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...
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The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...
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This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent migration across European countries. We construct a novel data base that includes information on...
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Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in … countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms in the aftermath of the 2008/09 crisis to tackle a number of issues …, including labor market segmentation. This particularly concerns reforms in: (1) employment protection, i.e. dismissal protection …
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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...
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