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received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …
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We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. Based on fixed-effects regressions using...
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We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
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We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …
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We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...
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