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What Do Business Climate Indexes Teach Us About State Policy and Economic Growth?

Kolko, Jed - 2011

State business climate indexes capture state policies that might affect economic growth. State rankings in these indexes vary wildly, raising questions about what the indexes measure and which policies are important for growth. Indexes focused on productivity do not predict economic growth,...

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Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth century. We use three new datasets: a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a...

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Taxation of Human Capital and Wage Inequality : A Cross-Country Analysis

Guvenen, Fatih - 2009

-50 differential). In a two-country comparison between the US and Germany, the combination of skill-biased technical change and …

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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?

Beaudry, Paul - 2000

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment : Germany vs. the US

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job … creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a …

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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …

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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement

Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity …

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …

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