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sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in … the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is key to … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …
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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 …
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large unique longitudinal database consisting of 1,809 US and...
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of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …
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Europe. …
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study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size …
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We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of overweight and obesity among European females. Our IV estimates suggest that years of schooling have a...
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Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to greater personal happiness. The analysis uses …
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The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
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