-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that …

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria … and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …

Survey data from the United States, West Germany and East Germany are analyzed to compare individual attitudes towards … political redistribution in each country. In West Germany the homo oeconomicus effect , the social rivalry effect and the public … effect disappears. In East Germany both the second and the third effect disappear. …

Germany and the US. …

novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative income for seven reference groups. We find … negative correlations between comparison intensity and SWB for colleagues, people in the same occupation and friends, but not …