promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France …, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …

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 …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … finding, and job filling within each country. This robust set of facts guides and disciplines the development of a theory of …