approach to characterize the redistributive preferences embodied in the welfare systems of 17 EU countries and the US. Implicit …

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …

especially in the Eurozone, the reaction to a very large extent stems from migration of recent EU accession country citizens as …

reacted quite significantly to the EU enlargements in 2004 and 2007 and to changes in labour market conditions, particularly …

Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU …-tech sectors. Our results also show that the US/EU productivity gap has worsened during the crisis period, as the EU companies have …

the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and FDI source countries. Moreover, from a theoretical perspective a … underestimation of deep integration projects such as TTIP. The panel data estimation of knowledge production functions for 20 EU … real income gain of nearly 2% should be expected for Germany (and the EU): considerably higher than what the official TTIP …