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 …

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 …

Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Rezession hat die Politik in Deutschland die Leistungen der Kurzarbeit ausgeweitet, indem …

the channel of gains from specialization. Our paper provides evidence of a link between an organization's culture … – specifically the trust environment – and its internal structure. We show experimentally that exogenously imposed culture … generalized trust and growth. It also points to an important determinant of a firm's internal structure: corporate culture (of …

non-labor income, controlling for both spouses' demographic and socioeconomic characteristics. Households whose culture of …

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We …

, creating a culture of compliance, and changing social norms. Tax morale does indeed appear to be an important component of …