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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 …
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Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …
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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 …
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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 …
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Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
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Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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distressed areas, CDCs are fundamentally limited in terms of reversing the processes of community decline. Our comparison of CDCs …
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Angesichts der gegenwärtigen Rezession hat die Politik in Deutschland die Leistungen der Kurzarbeit ausgeweitet, indem …
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composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …
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Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...
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