This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …

Higher education is in the position to save Europe by rendering a substantial contribution to sustainable economic …

the Commission and Member States have identified using the most recent wave of the EU Labour Force Survey. Our results …

We investigate possible racial discrimination in the context of discretionary parole release. We develop a rational … 1983 and 2003 in the U.S. We apply the outcome test methodology recently used to assess racial profiling in police search … minority and White prisoners become marginal from the perspective of their probability of parole violation. Parole boards …