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This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...
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Bundesverband der Deutschen Luftfahrtindustrie veranstaltetes Technologieforum statt. Detlev Müller-Wiesner, Präsident der Deutschen …-Günther Vieweg, ifo Institut, bewertete die Position der deutschen Luftfahrtindustrie im internationalen Wettbewerb, zeigte die …
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areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …
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This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...
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This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...
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Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". This paper...
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This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
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