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Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...
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On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The self-assessed wellbeing of Scots is lower than that of...
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Urban density both facilitates consumption opportunities and encourages individuals to drive less and walk and use public transit more. Using several data sets, we document that high quality of life consumer center cities are low carbon cities. We discuss possible causal channels for this...
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The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
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, despite increased economic integration in Europe, countries will still be able to maintain distinct labor practices if they … integration will place on the labor compact. Evidence is presented suggesting that labor mobility among EU countries has not … finding suggests that increased economic integration and European Monetary Union could lead to greater demand for social …
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the gains from trade in countries with more exporter firms and the welfare gains of European market integration in 2003-2012 …
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equity market integration in Europe. We use a simple and essentially model free measure of bilateral market segmentation: two … even after we control for several possible channels of integration, such as bilateral trade, direct investment positions … the Euro adoption has minimal effects on market integration …
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This paper explores price differences in the European Union (EU) pharmaceutical market, the EU's fifth largest industry. With the aim of enhancing quality of life along with industry competitiveness and R&D capability, many EU directives have been adopted to achieve a single EU-wide...
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A common European bond would yield a common European Monetary Union risk free rate. We present tentative estimates of this common risk free for the European Monetary Union countries from 2004 to 2009 using variables motivated by a theoretical portfolio selection model. First, we analyze the...
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