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Increasing Hours Worked : Moonlighting Responses to a Large Tax Reform
Tazhitdinova, Alisa - 2020
. This paper studies a unique reform in Germany that allowed workers to hold small secondary jobs tax-free, decreasing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481274
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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2009
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463591
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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany
Bell, Linda A. - 2000
This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470681
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The Response of Wages and Actual Hours Worked to the Reductions of Standard Hours
Hunt, Jennifer - 1996
A transformation of what had become a universal 40 hour standard work week in Germany began in 1985 with reductions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473122
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Who Works When? Evidence from the U.S. and Germany
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1995
This study uses data for the U.S. from the May 1991 CPS and for Germany from the 1990 wave of the Socioeconomic Panel … little human capital; 4) Minority workers in the U.S. and the foreign-born in Germany are especially likely to work at these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473669
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Why Do Americans and Germans Work Different Hours?
Bell, Linda - 1994
.S., lack of job security, and low social safety net compared to Germany or other European countries may explain the cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474112
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Policy Transferability and Hysteresis : Daily and Weekly Hours in the BRD and the US
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1994
U.S. and Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474146
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Days of Work Over a Half Century : The Rise of the Four-day Week
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Biddle, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
million more full-time workers on four-day weeks. The same growth occurred in the Netherlands, Germany, and South Korea. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334325
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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength
Peters, Bettina - 2016
This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456639
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The German Model of Industrial Relations : Balancing Flexibility and Collective Action
Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
pillars of the model: sectoral collective bargaining and firm-level codetermination. Relative to the United States, Germany …-level distributional conflict. Relative to other European countries, Germany makes it easy for employers to avoid coverage or use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362031