compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational … credentials are more important for stabilizing self-employment in the United States than in Germany, where the lack of credentials …

years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we … across countries. Labor market outcomes in Germany are consistent with a dual labor market model. In the case of American …

The United States is often considered to be more free-wheeling and mobile than Germany; however, previous cross …

This paper reviews changing income distributions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, treating the three … ignored. It is shown that in the United States and Germany changes in market incomes favored the upper quintiles and that the …

years of longitudinal data from Germany and the United States, 1991-1997 to demonstrate that gender issituated within other …

. Im Anschluss daran werden die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in Japan und Deutschland bei der Implementierung dreier … Alterssicherungssystems vor dem Hintergrund einer alternden Gesellschaft. In Japan wurden 1999 die Ausweitung der Beitragspflicht und die … Rentenversicherung und die Einführung einer steuerbegünstigten privaten Altersicherung bewirkte. Die in Deutschland 1996 eingeführte …

Im Zuge der Energiewende werden die fluktuierenden erneuerbaren Energien in Deutschland stark ausgebaut. Dadurch …The Energiewende in Germany aims at increasing the share of fluctuating renewable energy drastically. With this, new … challenges for the electricity system arise. Different types of storage and other flexibility options are available to cope with …