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The Impact of Robots on Labour Market Transitions in Europe

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2022

We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries between 1998-2017. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross-country differences: the effects of robot...

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The Over-Education Wage Penalty among PhD Holders: A European Perspective

Rycx, Francois; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022

holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and the UK), but also by estimating their wage penalty relative to what they could …

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Too Healthy to Fall Sick? Longevity Expectations and Protective Health Behaviours during the First Wave of COVID-19

Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2022

Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe. We draw on an instrumental variable strategy exploiting individual level information …

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Returns to Education in the Public and Private Sectors: Europe and Central Asia

Montenegro, Claudio; Patrinos, Harry A. - 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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Health Shocks and Housing Downsizing: How Persistent Is 'Ageing in Place'?

Costa-Font, Joan; Vilaplana-Prieto, Cristina - 2022

Individual preferences for 'ageing in place' (AIP) in old age are not well understood. One way to test the strength of AIP preference is to investigate the effect of health shocks on residential mobility to smaller size or value dwellings, which we refer to as 'housing downsizing'. This paper...

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The Impact of ICT and Robots on Labour Market Outcomes of Demographic Groups in Europe

Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2022

We study the age- and gender-specific labour market effects of two key modern technologies, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology...

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Explaining Happiness Trends in Europe

Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023

In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to …

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Do International Tourist Arrivals Change Residents' Attitudes Towards Immigration? A Longitudinal Study of 28 European Countries

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Smith, Ian - 2023

=333,505). We find that, as tourist arrivals grow, residents become more positive towards immigration in Eastern Europe. In … Western Europe, the relationship tends to turn from positive to negative at relatively high levels of tourism. The … Western and Eastern Europe. Overall, our study reveals an overlooked dimension of the tourism-migration nexus and highlights …

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The "Demise of the Caregiving Daughter"? Gender Employment Gaps and the Use of Formal and Informal Care in Europe

Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan - 2023

We revisit the universality of the "caregiving daughter effect", which holds that daughters tend to provide more care to their older parents than sons. Based on rich European data, we document evidence of such an effect in countries with large gender disparities in employment rates, where having...

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Unionization of Retired Workers in Europe

Pyka, Vinzenz; Schnabel, Claus - 2023

We shed light on an understudied group: retirees in unions. Using representative individual-level data of 19 European countries, we find that the share of retirees in unions and the union density of retirees increased between 2008 and 2020. Econometric analyses indicate that on average retired...

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