The gender pension gap, the difference in pension entitlements between men and women, is 32 percent for 60-yearolds according to data from the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung). In addition, there is a considerable motherhood pension gap: Statutory pension entitlements for...

An increasing number of countries and institutions are investing in large-scale research infrastructures (RIs) and in basic research. Scientific discoveries, which are expected thanks to RIs, may have a non-use value, in analogy with environmental and cultural public goods. This paper provides,...

Building the Large Hadron Collider (1995-2008) required frontier technologies. We wanted to discover whether there has been a long-term "learning by doing" effect on CERN suppliers' profitability, beyond the initial order. The evidence on this effect was until now fragmentary, mainly based on...

This report lists the JRC existing Infrastructures for research on the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear security and nuclear safeguards. These infrastructures are located in the four JRC sites were nuclear research is being carried on: Institute for Transuranium Elements in both sites of...

This report lists the JRC existing Infrastructures for research on the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear security and nuclear safeguards. These infrastructures are located in the four JRC sites were nuclear research is being carried on: Institute for Transuranium Elements in both sites of...

The CANDIDE workshop NEMEA-5, Neutron Measurements, Evaluations and Applications, Nuclear data for sustainable nuclear energy was held from 27-29 October 2008 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. These proceedings collect the full papers summarising the contributions to this workshop.

An international workshop, funded by the JRC's Enlargement and Integration Action, took place in Prague in 2005 entitled "Requirements for BNCT at a Nuclear Research Reactor". The intention of the workshop was to exchange knowledge between the EU BNCT programme at the HFR Petten (EC, NL) and...

Mankind now enjoys many benefits from nuclear-related technologies. There is, however, growing concern in many OECD countries that nuclear education and training is decreasing, perhaps to problematic levels. This publication conveys the results of a pioneering survey on nuclear education and...