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 …

In the UK's 2016 referendum on EU membership, young voters were more likely than their elders to vote Remain. Applying …

aggregate of ten Western European nations (the EU-10) from 1977 to 2015. We find that the standard growth accounting approach is …. Using industry-level data from EU KLEMS, we find that most of the 1995-2005 U.S. productivity growth revival was driven by … ICT-intensive industries producing market services and computer hardware. In contrast the EU-10 experienced a 1995 …

, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment … employment growth across countries and time. Our primary explanatory variables to explain both the revival of EU employment …