standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … richest exhibit a strikingly similar pattern, falling in the three decades after World War II, before rising sharply from the …

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

Europe. …

hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear …

Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …