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represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...
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can be seen from high shares of self-employed and part-timers, as well as temporary workers. Finally, Belgium has large …
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) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
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In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare …
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authors of this paper use unique linked employer-employee data from a 2003 survey in Belgium to examine how these bargaining …
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tax morale within three multicultural European countries, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain, a choice that allows far more … detailed examination of the impact of culture and institutions using datasets from the World Values Survey and the European …
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countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …
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