Many low skilled jobs have been substituted away for machines in Europe, or eliminated, much more so than in the US …, while technological progress at the "top", i.e. at the high-tech sector, is faster in the US than in Europe. This paper … suggests that the main difference between Europe and the US in this respect is their different labor market policies. European …

survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …

China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …

. Diamond (1997) famously argued that "fractured land" was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and … Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms of … state formation in Eurasia. We find that either topography or productive land alone is sufficient to account for China …

differences between Imperial China and Premodern Europe, as well as specific institutions such as the bureaucracy in China and the … role of cities in Europe. It is also consistent with the observation that autocratic rule was more stable in Imperial China …-development institutions, how should one understand why Imperial China, with weaker rule of law and property rights, gave the commoners more …

compares the actual performance of markets in Europe and China, two regions of the world that were relatively advanced in the … findings suggest that relative levels of market function in China and Europe were similar prior to the Industrial Revolution …Prevailing views suggest the Industrial Revolution began in Europe because markets had gradually become more efficient …