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Do Europeans care about climate change? : an illustration of the importance of data on human feelings
Nowakowski, Adam; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2020
Economists have proposed a variety of sophisticated climate-change interventions. But do our citizens care enough about climate change to enact such policies? This paper provides evidence that suggests they do not. Two kinds of findings are presented. Using data on 40,000 Europeans from the 2016...
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Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe
Ferreira, Susana; Akay, Alpaslan; Brereton, Finbarr; … - 2012
Concerns for environmental quality and its impact on people's welfare are fundamental arguments for the adoption of environmental legislation in most countries. In this paper, we analyse the relationship between air quality and subjective well-being in Europe. We use a unique dataset that merges...
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A participatory approach to assess the effectiveness of responses to cope with flood risk
Ceccato, Lucia; Giannini, Valentina; Giupponi, Carlo - 2010
This work illustrates the preliminary findings of a participatory research process aimed at identifying responses for sustainable water management in a climate change perspective, in two river basins in Europe and Asia. The paper describes the methodology implemented through local workshops,...
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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe
Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016
has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU …
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Is childcare bad for the mental health of grandparents? : evidence from SHARE
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2016
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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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016
workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a …
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Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period
Papadopoulos, Fotis; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016
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 material deprivation we use a three-step index of chronic cumulative …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of …
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Education policies and migration across European countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2016
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 reforms in Europe : towards more flexicure labor markets?
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul; Wehner, Caroline - 2016
Labor market segmentation refers to a salient divide between secure and insecure jobs and is related to problems in important areas, including macro‐economic efficiency, workers' wellbeing and repercussions for social cohesion. European countries have started a new wave of labor market reforms...
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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: who migrates where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
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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