, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment … employment growth across countries and time. Our primary explanatory variables to explain both the revival of EU employment …

players in world trade – the EU and the USA – are also the busiest users of this instrument. After looking at links between … of the four most prominent trade disputes between the EU and the USA ("mini trade wars") are analyzed with GTAP5: the …