GOVERNANCE WITH COMPLEX STRUCTURES: EVIDENCE FROM WESTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Trust, Gender and Social Capital: Experimental Evidence from Three Western European Countries

The economic literature has discussed the links between trust and gender, and trust and social capital. Given that some empirical evidence shows also that gender and trust are somehow related and specifically women tend to trust less than men, I try to investigate the effect of social capital on generalized trust, controlling also for the “gender effect”. This latter could be due to the fact th...

Social security problems in western European countries.

l Social security costs are rising (as a result of inflation, high unemployment rates, aging populations, and program liberalizations) at the same time as economic growth in these countries is declining; and l Cost control should be intensified in the areas of health care, benefit indexing, and program administration, while a reexamination of financing mechanisms is necessary to ensure a stable...

Transformation of media structures and media content. A diachronic analysis of five Western European countries

This paper analyzes the transformation of media structures and possible effects on public communication from 1960 to 2008. To build a basis for the evaluation of trends and situations in the various models of media and politics (Hallin/Mancini 2004), this paper will systematically analyze and compare the cases of Austria, Germany, and Switzerland (democratic-corporatist), Great Britain (liberal...

Are ICT Displacing Workers? Evidence from Seven European Countries

This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset provided by the ESSLait Project on Linking Microdata. We controlled for unobservable time-invariant firm-s...

Evidence From 23 European and North American Countries