This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi …-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model …

to its euro and refugee crises, Europe is suffering from an entrepreneurship crisis. Entrepreneurs are increasingly older … crisis. Demographic changes and institutional shortcomings are thus at the core of the entrepreneurship crisis in Europe. …The European Commission has adopted an Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan as its answer to challenges brought by the …

study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …

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 …

mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …