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Why Is Europe Falling Behind? Structural Transformation and Services' Productivity Differences between Europe and the U.S

Buiatti, Cesare - 2017

We explain labor productivity differences of the service sector between Europe and the U.S. through the labor allocation taking place within the service sector. We measure labor productivity using a multisector structural transformation model that decomposes services into 11 sub-sectors...

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Why Europe Has to Offer a Better Deal Towards its Muslim Communities : A Quantitative Analysis of Open International Data

Tausch, Arno; Bischof, Christian; Kastrun, Tomaz; … - 2008

the conclusion that present patterns of global governance, modeled around the neo-liberal Washington Consensus and … have won the fight against international terrorism. We then refute empirically the Huntington hypothesis about the … against global terrorism would imply arriving at more inclusive and less unilateralist structures of global governance …

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Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs : An Analysis of European Competitiveness

Timmer, Marcel P. - 2013

Increasing fragmentation of production across borders is changing the nature of international competition. As a result …

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Measuring Multinationals' R&D Activities in China on the Basis of a Patent Database : Comparing European, Japanese and US Firms

Motohashi, Kazuyuki - 2015

Using an internationally linked patent database, this paper compares the types of R&D activities undertaken by multinationals in China by home country and industry. In China, multinationals recently began investing in R&D, mainly in the areas of product and manufacturing process development....

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Baukosten und Bauhandwerk im internationalen Vergleich

Gluch, Erich; Behring, Karin; Rußig, Volker - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

Der Bericht vergleicht die Baukosten und die Qualität des Bauhandwerks in verschiedenen OECD-Ländern. Danach sind die Baukosten in Deutschland überdurchschnittlich hoch. Dieses ist vor allem auf die strikte Gewerketrennung und unzureichende Koordination zurückzuführen. Es wird gefordert,...

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China, Europe, and the great divergence : further concerns about the historical GDP estimates for China

Solar, Peter M. - 2021

Broadberry, Guan and Li (2018) made estimates for China's GDP per capita from 980 to 1840 in order to date the onset of the Great Divergence between China and western European economies. In response to Solar's (2021) criticisms, they (2021) made some revisions to the estimates but largely...

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Measurement of specialization the choice of indices

Palan, Nicole - 2010

This paper compares nine common specialization indices, discussing their properties, strengths and weaknesses. In order to unravel the differences between the indices they are applied to European employment structures in 2005, spanning 51 industries and 24 European countries. The resulting...

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