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

% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …

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 …

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 …

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

Married individuals match with spouses who share their occupation more frequently than predicted by chance, suggesting … either a preference for same-occupation matches or lower search costs within occupation. To distinguish between these … explanations, we use a differences-in-differences strategy that compares the difference in wages between same-occupation husbands …

contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant. …