Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 983
Cover Image
Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528838
Cover Image
Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455581
Cover Image
Effect of immigration on depression among older natives in Western Europe
Escarce, José J.; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146692
Cover Image
The household budget survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew - 2018
We trace the development of the household expenditure survey from its conception during the Napoleonic Wars until the 1960s. We have compiled the first historical bibliography of household budget surveys in Western Europe and, using the surveys themselves as source material, have traced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820809
Cover Image
Key links in network interactions: assessing route-specific travel restrictions in China during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chen, Xi; Qiu, Yun; Shi, Wei; Yu, Pei - 2022
We consider a model of network interactions where the outcome of a unit depends on the outcomes of the connected units …. We determine the key network link, i.e., the network link whose removal results in the largest reduction in the aggregate … outcomes, and provide a measure that quantifies the contribution of a network link to the aggregate outcomes, which complements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012806067
Cover Image
Predicting road conditions with internet search
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387551
Cover Image
Calling the Greek referendum on the nose with Google Trends
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407828
Cover Image
Predicting the Irish "gay marriage" referendum
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on May 22 of the same year. A yes vote would legalise same sex marriage in Ireland. As the Irish premier put it, the vote was about "tolerance, respect and sensitivity". The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407829
Cover Image
Trend-spotting in the housing market
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348297
Cover Image
Historical data: where to find them, how to use them
Giuliano, Paola; Matranga, Andrea - 2020
The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the influence of the past on current economic outcomes; to use unique natural experiments to test modern economic theories; and to use modern economic theories to refine our understanding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296635