Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however fulltime employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …

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 …

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

In Belgium youth unemployment is structurally higher than the European (EU27) average, in particular for the low …

. The second solution, the regionalisation of wage bargaining, is frequently mentioned in Belgium or in Italy where regional …

administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …

/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in the Netherlands. We find that workers in these particular subindustries of …

by cultural background. To test the hypothesis of a 'Teutonic work ethic', this paper takes advantage of Switzerland in … significantly negative effect on life satisfaction in Switzerland. I furthermore present evidence which confirms to some extent the …