The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the …

Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and … inequality and low growth, the rise of the East has shown that it may not be liberal democracy that is best at accommodating the … social mutations that technologies have triggered. The cases of China and Italy form the research focus as two extremes in …

mobility within Europe …

preferences. We derive important implications for research on optimal taxation …

Europe …

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using regional panel data, we find that Europe's migratory response to … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …

in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the …This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following … relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment in …