price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …

the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut …The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over …

University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for …

publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for … effective tax rates on income from capital, and it defines the limits of this analysisby pointing out areas that are excluded by …

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on …; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is …

with similar tenants. We link the tenants to their tax records to obtain information on demographics, income, mobility … negative income shocks, evidencing a collateral effect …

In this paper, I examine the effect of business cycles on the employment, earnings, and income of persons in different … earnings, hourly earnings, annual hours, annual earnings, family earnings, family transfer income, and total family income. The … effects on family income than individual earnings. The paper examines the stability of these results by comparing evidence …

liquid assets to smooth individual income shocks. We show that the response of this economy to aggregate shocks depends on … to a self-insurance motive, their consumption decisions are more sensitive to changes in expected income. On the other … more insulated from income uncertainty. Therefore, aggregate shocks tend to have larger effects if liquid assets pay a …