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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor);  … - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771831
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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany
Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721997
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659
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How information affects support for education spending : evidence from survey experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2016
preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565610
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Inequality and the state : comparing U.S. and German preferences
Corneo, Giacomo - 2000
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009780207
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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons
Solow, Robert - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781501
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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123030
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Real wages and business cycle asymmetries : presented at CESifo conference "Academic Use of ifo Survey Data", December 2003
Woitek, Ulrich - 2004
and Germany to condition the relationship between real wages and business fluctuations on the phase of the cycle, it is … general, the evidence for countercyclical wages is stronger in Germany than for the US, but taken together there is no clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449261
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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru
Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023
We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...
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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791799