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religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
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This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
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of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential … research, the US maintains a dominant position. The main continental European countries, Germany, France, Italy and Spain …
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Europe. …
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development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...
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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
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Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...
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