be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …

By merging KLEMS data sets and aggregating over the ten largest Western European nations (EU-10), we are able to … compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are …-industries. The analysis focuses on outcomes over four time intervals: 1950-72, 1972-95, 1995-2005, and 2005-15. We interpret the EU …

coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …