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Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors : Europe and Central Asia
Montenegro, Claudio; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2022
The returns to schooling are estimated for 28 European and Central Asian countries using the Mincerian function. Our results show that while the public sector pays on average more than the private sector, the effect of education on earnings is stronger in the private sector. However, the returns...
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Second-Generation Immigrants and Native Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe
Barrera, Oscar; Bensidoun, Isabelle; Edo, Anthony - 2022
This paper investigates the role played by immigrants and their children in shaping native attitudes toward immigrants in the European Union. By exploiting the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on immigrant integration, we show that countries with a relatively high share of immigrants are more likely...
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How Representative are Social Partners in Europe? The Role of Dissimilarity
Martinez-Matute, Marta; Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
Social partners (trade unions and employers' associations) and their representativeness can shape labour institutions and economic and social outcomes in many countries. In this paper, we argue that, when examining social partners' representativeness, it is important to consider both affiliation...
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Labour Market Concentration, Wages and Job Security in Europe
Bassanini, Andrea; Bovini, Giulia; Caroli, Eve; … - 2022
We investigate the impact of labour market concentration on two dimensions of job quality, namely wages and job security. We leverage rich administrative linked employer-employee data from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain in the 2010s to provide the first comparable...
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the Us
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2022
-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US … a large growth of net imports from China (such as the UK and the US), than in countries that maintained relatively …
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Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers Across Europe?
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2022
More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination …
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Europe's Migration Experience and its Effects on Economic Inequality
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2021
This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link …
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The Causal Impact of Depression on Cognitive Functioning : Evidence from Europe
Nafilyan, Vahé; Avendano Pabon, Mauricio; Coulon, … - 2021
Cognitive skills are important determinants of employment and productivity in older adults. Although cognitive decline is often linked to changes in mental health, the causal nature of the association between mental illness and cognitive performance is not established. In this paper, we analyse...
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Education Policies and Migration Across European Countries
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 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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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
their Britain-based counterparts. Other things equal, this means that US-based British children would grow taller …We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … the US workers more energy for work, and we conclude that, if stature is taken into account, workers in the US and UK …
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