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The structure of wages : an international comparison

Lazear, Edward P. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2008

the Netherlands, 1999-2003 / Lex Borghans and Ben Kriechel -- Finland : firm factors in wages and wage changes / Roope …

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The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Less Skilled Workers Over the Business Cycle

Hoynes, Hilary - 1999

In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different demographic groups. I classify individuals by sex, education, and race. The analysis uses data from the Current Population Survey's Outgoing Rotation Group file, covering the...

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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany

Heckman, James J. - 2002

This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity

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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries

Mohnen, Pierre - 2006

: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …

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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems

Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …

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Immigrants, Labor Market Dynamics and Adjustment to Shocks in the Euro Area

Basso, Gaetano - 2018

We analyze the role of labor mobility in cushioning labor demand shocks in the Euro Area. We find that foreign born workers' mobility is strongly cyclical, while this is not the case for natives. Foreigners' higher population to employment elasticity reduces the variation of overall employment...

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The Role of Labor Market Changes in the Slowdown of European Productivity Growth

Dew-Becker, Ian - 2008

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in...

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Changes in Black-White Inequality : Evidence from the Boll Weevil

Clay, Karen - 2020

This paper investigates the effect of a large negative agricultural shock, the boll weevil, on black-white inequality in the first half of the twentieth century. To do this we use complete count census data to generate a linked sample of fathers and their sons. We find that the boll weevil...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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Who Is Coming to the Artefactual Field Experiment? Participation Bias among Chinese Rural Migrants

Frijters, Paul - 2015

In this paper, we compare participants in an artefactual field experiment in urban China with the survey population of migrants from which they were recruited. The experimental participants were more educated, more likely to lend money to friends, and worked fewer hours than the general...

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