go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective …

marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and … France have flatter wealth gradients. …

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …

discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …