Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … Europeans. Layered on top of these weak labor markets is the rapid onset of aging; if policies are not changed, Europe will lose … about a million workers every year for the next five decades, especially in the 2030s. In short, Europe has to increase both …

knowledge the first to use this dynamic approach applied to Europe, which we are able to do with a common dataset, time …

in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in … and school resources - as well as more targeted policies. While our focus is mainly on Europe, we also consider important …

across Europe. The analysis covers 18 countries over the period 2007-2009. Empirical results confirm the intuition of many …

externality that is internalized in Europe through laws on the minimum amount of vacation time (and maximum hours of work … model and data on work time are used to obtain an estimate of the US welfare gain from reducing its work time to Europe …

2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum …