and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable … centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge … of either of its official languages. Acquisition of a second language in Canada is voluntary and largely dependent on …

vaccination rates and 790,000 or more first doses for Canada as a whole as of October 31, 2021 (5 to 13 weeks after the provincial …

World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …