later school performance. We also consider different childcare characteristics such as duration and quality, which appear to … quality issues …

quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … quality, and lower quality-adjusted prices. Finally, they also use a wider range of inputs, higher quality and more expensive … improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …

approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …

the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer … prosperity and detente. The EU has a strong motive in this, since conflicts in its neighbourhood spill-over into the EU itself …, strong intraregional trade, and the prospect of accession to the EU. It concludes that the EU's Member States must give …

inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that permits them to charge a presumptive rate (approximately equal to the …

used anywhere in a defined international area provided it is in the designed field of studies and in a school whose quality …