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The impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth inequality in Japan and the United States

Niimi, Yoko; Horioka, Charles - 2017

To help shed light on the implications of intergenerational transfers for wealth inequality, this paper uses data for Japan and the United States to examine whether individuals who receive intergenerational transfers from their parents are more likely to leave bequests to their children than...

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Returns to Self-Employment Experience in the Wage and Salary Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States

Trzcinski, Eileen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 177-183

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Changes in Permanent Income Inequality in the United States and Germany in the 1990s

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Butler, J.S.; Houtenville, Andrew J. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 284-289

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Fiscal Federalism - an International Comparison

Seidel, Bernhard; Vesper, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 3, pp. 449-472

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The "IT Productivity Paradox" Revisited: International Comparisons of Information Technology, Work Organisation and Productivity in Service Industries

Mason, Geoff; Wagner, Karin; Finegold, David; Keltner, Brent - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 618-629

, zumindest in den USA, auf der Firmenebene gelöst wurde, bleiben noch einige Unklarheiten auf den Ebenen von Branchen- und … Arbeitsproduktivität durch Vergleiche von entsprechenden Stichproben im Banken- und Hotelgewerbe in den USA, Deutschland und England. In …

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Pathways into Self-Employment in the United States and Germany

McManus, Patricia A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 24-30

compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational … credentials are more important for stabilizing self-employment in the United States than in Germany, where the lack of credentials … is a significant deterrent to self-employment entry. Intergenerational transmission of self-employment is more prominent …

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Early Career Experiences and Later Career Outcomes: Comparing the United States, France and Germany

Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique; Vilhuber, Lars - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 31-38

This paper explores the links between individuals' early career experiences and their labor market outcomes 5 to 20 years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we consider a large set of measures of men's early career...

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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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Income Mobility in the United States and Germany: A Comparison of Two Classes of Mobility Measures using the GSOEP, PSID, and CPS

Houtenville, Andrew J. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 59-65

The United States is often considered to be more free-wheeling and mobile than Germany; however, previous cross-national studies of income mobility find the oppositeis true. This paper investigates these surprising results and finds that they are confirmed when income mobility is measured by...

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(Not) Sharing the Fruits of Growth: The Impact of Governments and Markets on Living Standards in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States

Headey, Bruce; Headey, Stephen; Muffels, Ruud - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 115-122

This paper reviews changing income distributions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, treating the three countries as leading economic performers in ' the three worlds of welfare capitalism.' Previous analyses have shown that earnings dispersion is increasing. The potential impact...

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