worked and tax rates in three sets of economies: the US, Continental Europe and Scandinavia. While tax rates are highest in … Scandinavia, hours worked in Scandinavia are significantly higher than they are in Continental Europe. I argue that differences in …

Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US …, while technological progress at the "top", i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This paper … suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US in this respect is their different labor market policies. European …

policy environment in Sweden prior to 1990-91 and compare them to the situation in other European countries and the United … set of policies and institutions, Sweden's employment distribution in the mid-1980s is sharply tilted away from low … countries, Sweden has an unusually high share of employment in large firms. Furthermore, the Swedish rate of self-employment in …

contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work …

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … primary theme of the paper is that differences between Europe and the U. S. have been substantially exaggerated in recent work …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits …