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Loafing or Learning? : The demand for informal education
Fahr, René (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784316
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Von der Frühverrentung zum längeren Erwerbsleben: Transferleistungen, Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Weiterbildung
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor) - 2007
Die Beschäftigung älterer Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahren merklich zugenommen. Die Studie untersucht diese jüngste Verbesserung der Arbeitsmarktsituation Älterer und analysiert den Beitrag, den die arbeitsmarkt- und sozialpolitischen Reformen der letzten Jahre dabei...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656893
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Long-lasting effects of socialist education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Masella, Paolo - 2016
Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450434
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Is ability tracking (really) responsible for educational inequalities in achievement? : a comparison between the country states Bavaria and Hesse in Germany
Esser, Hartmut; Relikowski, Ilona - 2015
It is still taken for granted that (early) ability tracking increases the impact of social origin on achievement in (lower) secondary education, but without gains in the overall level. This contribution addresses the question of whether this common conviction is really correct. The various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529428
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2016
Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000066
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821909
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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe
Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016
This paper examines the factors determining variations in spatial rates of overeducation. A quantile regression model has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) and several institutional and macroeconomic features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543640
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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412475
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Is childcare bad for the mental health of grandparents? : evidence from SHARE
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2016
grandfathers, using data from the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and an instrumental variables strategy which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497179
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528838