wellbeing around the time of the June 2016 EU membership Referendum in the UK (Brexit). We find that those reporting a … preference for leaving the EU were 0.14 points less satisfied with life pre-referendum, with both misery (life satisfaction below … respondents who reported a preference for leaving the EU. However, adaptation to the Brexit result appears to be complete three …

(EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary …: judiciary, bureaucracy, and competition policy. To test our framework, we introduce a new panel of institutional reform measures … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

advantage, we argue that an efficient formal judiciary helps entrepreneurs without any ties to informal business networks …

. -- satisfaction with democracy ; environment …We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for … higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …

positive impact of migration on job creating activities in Albania. -- Occupational choice ; return migration ; sample …

in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, the lack of parental care may cause … –mainly by fathers – is very relevant in Albania where migration has represented the only viable way to cope with increasing … poverty and the absence of public resources for sustaining households’ incomes. Between 1990 and 2005 in Albania 21.7% of …