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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers
Bick, Alexander - 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/10012983896
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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe : A Panel Analysis
Wagner, Alexander F. - 2006
We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy/CO2 tax, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783262
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We Were the Robots : Automation and Voting Behavior in Western Europe
Anelli, Massimo - 2019
We investigate the impact of robot adoption on electoral outcomes in 14 Western European countries, between 1993 and 2016. We employ both official election results at the district level and individual-level voting data, combined with party ideology scores from the Manifesto Project. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865844
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Effect of Immigration on Depression Among Older Natives in Western Europe
Escarce, Jose - 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/10012857705
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The Household Budget Survey in Western Europe, 1795-1965
Gazeley, Ian - 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/10012922458
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Living Arrangements in Western Europe : Does Cultural Origin Matter?
Giuliano, Paola - 2006
Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements and particularly the dramatic increase in the fraction of young adults living with their parents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059086
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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition … Germans became narrower over time.Almost 10 years after EU enlargement, we re-assess the transitional arrangements, and argue … to study how effective migration within the EU is as an adjustment mechanism. Our data clearly show an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088336
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Does Formal Work Pay? The Role of Labor Taxation and Social Benefit Design in the New EU Member States
Koettl, Johannes - 2014
approach. Using EU-SILC 2008 data and OECD Tax and Benefit data for six Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066648
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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries
Clark, Kenneth - 2013
comparison to migrants from the new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EUA8 countries). Migrants from the EaP countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073868
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study : Italy
Marchetti, Sabrina - 2013
Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...
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