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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258175
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262648
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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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The wage effects of social norms : evidence of deviations from peers' body-mass in Europe
Fahr, René (contributor) - 2006
"We investigate wage effects of deviations from peer group body mass index (BMI) to evaluate the influence of social norms on wages. Our approach allows for disentangling the influence of the social norm from any (anticipated) productivity effects associated with deviations from a clinically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003375235
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Living in rural areas and self-employment
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
areas, and this paper shows that workers in rural areas in Europe are more likely to be self-employed, despite more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821909
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Are US wages really determined by European labor-market institutions?
Meckl, Jürgen (contributor) - 2005
This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and their implications for individual wage incomes and demand for education. Although preserving the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158652
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The obesity epidemic in Europe
Sanz de Galdeano, Anna (contributor) - 2005
This paper uses longitudinal micro-evidence from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the obesity phenomenon in nine EU countries from 1998 to 2001. The author documents cross-country prevalence, trends and cohort-age profiles of obesity among adults and analyses the...
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The effectiveness of European active labor market policy
Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2006
Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works for what target group under what (economic and institutional) circumstances?". This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003330264
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952
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Female labor market transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. (contributor) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316483