risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …

countries. In the paper, we compare the labour market developments in four countries: Germany, Italy, Poland, and Sweden. There … are pronounced differences in the labour market participation in the four countries: high levels of employment in Germany … and Sweden are in contrast with low levels of employment in Italy and Poland. In the latter two countries, there is also a …

reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries … West more productive than the East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages …, while in Germany the relationship between non-employment and productivity is significantly weaker. In Italy, the …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we … find that managerial practices are positively related to students' outcomes. The estimates imply that if Italy had the same …

countries Germany, France and the Netherlands using the EU Labour Force Survey. Second, we characterize the different employment …

This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using …