productivity growth, particularly in large relatively closed economies like the USA, will tend to raise middle class incomes. At …

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 …

1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to …

.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …

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 …

.S transit agencies with transit agencies in Germany and the United Kingdom. We study U.S urban public sector energy efficiency …

and Germany, and thereby assess the impact of increased pollution abatement capital regulation on productivity growth. Our …