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Self-employment in Germany and the UK : labor market regulation, risk-management and gender in comparative perspective

Gottschall, Karin; Kroos, Daniela - 2003

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Self-employment in Germany and the UK : labor market regulation, risk management and gender in comparative perspective

Gottschall, Karin - 2003

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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy

Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …

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Trends in economic research: an international perspective

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …

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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012

sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …

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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

Europe. …

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The economics of language: an introduction and overview

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2008

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

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Inequalities within couples: market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe

Figari, Francesco; Immervoll, Herwig; Levy, Horacio; … - 2007

In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under...

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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe: an east-west comparison

Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008

This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...

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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003

interdependencies with the labor market situation in Europe. We place particular emphasis on the issue of non-competitive wage setting …

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