July 11, 2014
Entrepreneurship is an important source of innovation and technological change. And as standard macro theory suggests, these are main drivers […]
July 7, 2014
Given the large differences in youth unemployment rates across Europe, one would expect young people to migrate from countries with […]
July 4, 2014
Absenteeism is a cause of substantial loss of working time worldwide. In some OECD countries nearly 10 percent of annual […]
June 30, 2014
In light of the recent recession and demands by some observers that Greece and other Southern European countries should leave […]
June 27, 2014
Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Observational studies report lower wages for minority, […]
June 25, 2014
Students who sleep seven hours per night during the exam period score an average of 1.7 points higher (on a […]
June 23, 2014
By Mirco Tonin (University of Southampton and IZA) and Michael Vlassopoulos (University of Southampton) A fifth of UK workers are […]
June 23, 2014
Welfare benefits are a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the poor need them to survive, on the other hand […]
June 20, 2014
Organized crime generates about two percent of global GDP. While this is already a considerable share, the mafia and other […]
June 17, 2014
International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]
June 16, 2014
On June 11, in the Hayek Auditorium of Cato Institute and in front of an audience of 200 people, IZA […]
June 14, 2014
International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]
June 13, 2014
Most university students complete an internship while pursuing an academic degree: some work during the semester breaks, others even take […]
June 9, 2014
When homo economicus thinks about committing a crime, it’s all about balancing: the benefit of the crime against the disutility […]
June 6, 2014
Although the end of World War II is not even seventy years ago, one out of five Germans thinks that […]