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Endogenous pensions and retirement behavior
Filer, Randall Keith (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper suggests that pension characteristics are simultaneously determined along with workers’ retirement ages. Both the age of pension eligibility and actual retirement age are determined by the productivity and marginal disutility of work, factors that are influenced by worker and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003200912
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2012
We develop a new general equilibrium monopolistic competition model with variable demand elasticity, heterogeneous … firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683263
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The economic value of cultural diversity : Evidence from US Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004
We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404281
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Welfare to work in the US : a model for Germany?
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2001
Social assistance in Germany reduces the incentive to work. TheU. S. Welfare to Work Programme tries to avoid such …. Conclusions for welfare reform in Germany are drawn. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399661
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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a … Multinomial Choice framework. Our estimates confirm a number of conventional results such as positive effects of wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
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Lohn- und Arbeitsmarktentwicklung in den USA : einige Anmerkungen zu neueren Tendenzen
Gaß, Gerald - In: WSI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift des Wirtschafts- und … 47 (1994) 5, pp. 290-299
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001165117
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Bounds of unfair inequality of opportunity : theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
illustrate our approach by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant, sizeable and robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535094
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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence
Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001
whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398432
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The transmission of German monetary policy in the pre-Euro period
Lütkepohl, Helmut; Wolters, Jürgen - 2001
A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400913