that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …

Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …

compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …