and rely on a very comprehensive database of scientific journals, to provide a cross-country comparison of the evolution … of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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 …

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and … Europe. …

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data on internet activity for that purpose …

interdependencies with the labor market situation in Europe. We place particular emphasis on the issue of non-competitive wage setting …

while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …