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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 … between 31 percent of the observed wage gap in the UK and 71 percent in Denmark. When a larger set of control variables is …
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, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
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Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that...
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Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect. Recent birth-cohorts living in England and born in … Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for …
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from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant …
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voluntary work provision in three English-speaking countries - England, Ireland and the U.S. We draw on data from the ELSA …
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the introduction of minimum wages in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Using survey data for the two countries, we develop a … gender gap at low wages is observed after the introduction of the minimum wage in Ireland while there is hardly any change in …
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Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
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This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
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The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
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