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 …

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 …

international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job …

Europe. …

) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no firing cost effects on employer … worker for benefits. Plans that pay benefits across all separations are functionally severance savings plans. The variety of …

income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch … households. The survey contains rich information on house-hold wealth, pension rights and savings attitudes. A result of the …

-person households (e.g. with a husband and a wife) from the Dutch CentER Savings Survey, we find that wives find saving for old age more …

-migrant. Although migrants lose their original social networks whilst overseas, savings and human capital accumulation acquired abroad …