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International evidence on well-being
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor) - 2008
National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for "unpleasant" or "undesirable", which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679395
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Whatever works : dualisation and the service economy in Bismarckian welfare states
Eichhorst, Werner; Marx, Paul - 2010
can be seen from high shares of self-employed and part-timers, as well as temporary workers. Finally, Belgium has large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985730
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Does institutional diversity account for pay rules in Germany and Belgium?
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425687
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Sibling rivalry: a six country comparison
Wolter, Stefan C. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001743774
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Tax evasion, welfare fraud, and "the broken windows" effect : an experiment in Belgium, France and the Netherlands
Lefebvre, Mathieu; Pestieau, Pierre; Riedl, Arno; … - 2011
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, we compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235592
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Rent-sharing under different bargaining regimes : evidence from linked employer-employee data
Rusinek, Michael (contributor); Rycx, François (contributor) - 2008
authors of this paper use unique linked employer-employee data from a 2003 survey in Belgium to examine how these bargaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748594
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What shapes attitudes toward paying taxes? : Evidence from multicultural European countries
Torgler, Benno (contributor);  … - 2006
tax morale within three multicultural European countries, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain, a choice that allows far more … detailed examination of the impact of culture and institutions using datasets from the World Values Survey and the European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003388242
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777922
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Country-specific goal-scoring in the "dying seconds" of international football matches
Ours, Jan C. van; Tuijl, Martin A. van - 2010
national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Championship and World Cup and the matches at the final tournaments of these two events, the Copa America and the Confederations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969605
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The productivity impact of R&D investment : a comparison between the EU and the US
Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476418