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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the …

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Employment of Mothers After Childbirth: French-German Comparison

Weber, Andrea Maria; Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …

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Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender Wage Gaps in the EU

Heinze, Anja; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam; Laisney, … - 2003

We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …

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Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models

Lüders, Erik; Schröder, Michael - 2004

large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen …

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A Simulation Method to Measure the Tax Burden on Highly Skilled Manpower

Elschner, Christina; Schwager, Robert - 2004

. The results indicate that Germany and France have higher tax burdens than the UK and the USA, that Germany grants the …

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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions

Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - 2006

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Do hours restrictions matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-Countries

Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999

The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...

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