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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 … training, both firm-specific and general. While the finding for firm-specific training is consistent with both competitive and …

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...

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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe : A Wage Decomposition Approach

McGuinness, Séamus - 2016

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Social Harmonization and Labor Market Performance in Europe

Mirecka, Katarzyna - 2017

The paper aims to assess the impact of selected elements of social harmonization on labor market performance in the European Union among two groups of workers — the total working population and the elderly. The aim is to examine whether upward changes in labor taxes affect employment,...

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Social harmonization and labor market performance in Europe

Mirecka, Katarzyna; Styczy´nska, Izabela - 2017

The paper aims to assess the impact of selected elements of social harmonization on labor market performance in the European Union among two groups of workers - the total working population and the elderly. The aim is to examine whether upward changes in labor taxes affect employment,...

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Overeducation, overskilling and job satisfaction in Europe : the moderating role of employment contracts

Giuliano, Romina; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2024

This paper is the first to examine whether and how overeducation and overskilling, considered separately and in interaction, influence workers' job satisfaction at European level. It also investigates the moderating role of employment contracts. Our results, based on a unique pan-European...

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Overeducation, overskilling and job satisfaction in Europe : the moderating role of employment contracts

Giuliano, Romina; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2024

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The Gender Wage Gap in Europe : Job Preferences, Gender Convergence and Distributional Effects

McGuinness, Séamus - 2017

The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence differs across countries in Europe. Most, if not all, of the...

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