While this study describes the evolution of the policies that led to European supremacy in broadband deployment it compares European policy development to the policy development in the United States during the same period and concludes that this time around the Europeans may be on the way to...

It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...