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The Causal Effect of Education on Health

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects:while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use...

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Non cognitive skills and personality traits: Labour market relevance and their development in education & training systems

Brunello, Giorgio; Schlotter, Martin - 2011

labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not …

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The causal effect of education on health: What is the role of health behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2011

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Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatch in Europe: A Review of the Literature

Brunello, Giorgio; Wruuck, Patricia - 2019

quality jobs. For Europe at large, persistent skill gaps and mismatches come at economic and social costs. This paper reviews … the recent economic literature on skill mismatch and skill shortages with a focus on Europe a focus on Europe. …

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Is Training more Frequent when Wage Compression is Higher? Evidence from 11 European Countries

Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

In this empirical paper, I use the 1996 wave of the ECHP dataset to investigate the relationship between measures of wage compression and training incidence in 11 European countries. After controlling for individual factors and country specific institutional differences, I find evidence of a...

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With a Little Help from My Mother. The Matrilineal Advantage in European Grand Parenting

Brunello, Giorgio; Yamamura, Eiji - 2021

This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent – grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 … stronger for grandmothers than for grandfathers, and stronger in the more conservative societies of Southern Europe, where …

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Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP

Béatrice d’Hombres; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically significant, independently of gender. Given the nature of...

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The College Wage Gap in 10 European Countries: Evidence from Two Cohorts

Brunello, Giorgio; Comi, Simona; Lucifora, Claudio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We study the recent evolution of the college wage gap with a unique data set that comprises two cohorts and 10 European countries from the early to mid 1980s to the mid to late 1990s. We find evidence of significant cross country differences in the level and dynamics of the gap. There is also...

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The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2007

in cohort size affect real earnings in Europe. This is an important question in the light of widespread population ageing … are more sensible to changes in cohort size in Southern Europe, which points to a lower degree of substitutability between … Europe is in line with the higher employment protection that its workers enjoy, at least compared to the workers located in …

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Does Body Weight affect Wages? Evidence from Europe.

Brunello, Giorgio; d'Hombres, Beatrice - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2006

labour market are heterogeneous, we estimate separate regressions for Northern and Southern Europe and find that the negative …

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