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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using exogenous refugee supply shocks as natural experiments. Several studies have reached conflicting conclusions about the effects of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in...
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The labor market consequences of refugee supply shocks
Borjas, George J.; Monras, Joan - 2016
The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political controversy and raised questions that require a fuller understanding of the determinants and consequences of refugee supply shocks. This paper revisits four historical refugee...
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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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Did bank lending stifle innovation in Europe during the great recession?
Peia, Oana; Romelli, Davide - 2019
Using the 2008-09 Global financial crisis and the 2012 Euro area sovereign debt crisis as natural experiments, we investigate the effects of contractions in credit supply on R&D spending in a large sample of European firms. Our identification strategy exploits differences in financial...
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