type="main" xml:id="obes12039-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Self-reported life satisfaction is highly heterogeneous across similar countries, a phenomenon that may be explained by the different scales and benchmarks that people use to evaluate themselves. This study uses cross-sectional data gathered from...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>En este estudio sostenemos que la capacidad de las regiones para atraer a la IED se ve afectada por el efecto del propio país, que puede manifestarse de dos formas diferentes: la primera se relaciona con el desempeño relativo del país del que forma parte la...</p>

This timely book investigates the challenges that emerge for local economies when faced with the new globalization trends that characterize today’s world economy.

We use life history data covering households in thirteen European countries to analyse residential moves past age 50. We observe four types of moves: renting to owning, owning to renting, trading up or trading down for home-owners. We find that in the younger group (aged 50-64) trading up and...

We analyze the relationship between the state of the business cycle at birth and childhood health. We use a retrospective survey on self-reported childhood health for ten Western European countries and combine it with historically and internationally comparable data on the Gross Domestic...

We use life history data covering households in 13 European countries to analyse residential moves past the age of 50. We observe four types of moves: renting to owning, owning to renting, trading up or trading down for homeowners. We find that in the younger group (aged 50–64), trading up and...