Are the healthier wealthier or the wealthier healthier? Evidence from Europe presents an extensive and updated survey of the research findings on socio-economic inequalities in health in six European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Netherlands and United Kingdom). Three main...

“Public Funding and Private Returns to Education - PURE” is a two-year EU-TSER financed research project that started on November 1, 1998. It involves as many as 15 European countries: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain,...

Rita Asplundin toimittamassa Education and Earnings -tutkimuksessa esitellään uutta eurooppalaista tutkimusta koulutuksen yksilöille tuottamasta taloudellisesta hyödystä. Tutkimuksessa käsitellään mm. koulutuksen ja työttömyyden välistä suhdetta, yritysten halua investoida...

This book explores the impact of public R&D funding on the economic performance of Finnish firms, especially in terms of productivity growth and job creation. Special attention is thereby paid to the potential influence exerted by two crucial characteristics of firms – their size and their...

This report analyses the trends in private-sector male and female wage dispersions and wage gaps up to 2005. The focus is on three central wage and salary earner groups : white-collar and blue-collar male and female workers in manufacturing industries and services sector male and female...

EDWIN is a two-and-a-half-year research project supported by DG-Research of the European Commission, bringing together nine research teams from an equal number of European countries: Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom. This volume of the...