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Are COVID fatalities in the US higher than in the EU, and if so, why?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
The COVID crisis has severely hit both the United States and the European Union. Even though they are the wealthiest regions in the world, they differ substantially in economic performance, demographic characteristics, type of government, health systems, and measures undertaken to counteract...
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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …
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Can US coordination failure explain why Americans work so much more than Europeans?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2014
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 …
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric …
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Where do the brainy Italians go?
Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008
This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...
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The distribution of total work in the EU and US
Burda, Michael C. (contributor);  … - 2006
Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...
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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...
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Intergenerational residence patterns and COVID-19 fatalities in the EU and the US
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020
We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for the 27 countries in the European Union, the UK, and all US...
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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017
This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...
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A European perspective on long‐term unemployment
Eichhorst, Werner; Neder, Franziska; Tobsch, Verena; … - 2015
In contrast to the recently decreasing unemployment rates in the EU, long-term unemployment remains at alarming levels. An economic recovery will not be sufficient to get all long-term unemployed back to work; rather, there is a need for effective policies addressing the long-term unemployed. To...
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