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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …

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Trade and Worker Deskilling

Dhingra, Swati - 2019

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...

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The Nonlinear Link between Height and Wages : An Empirical Investigation

Hübler, Olaf - 2011

This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel where five hypotheses are tested. Some explanations of a positive link exist and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis. In contrast to previous investigations which are only...

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Unequal Consequences of Covid-19 Across Age and Income : Representative Evidence from Six Countries

Belot, Michele - 2020

Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...

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Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Akay, Alpaslan - 2018

the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany …

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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …

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Social Assistance in Five Countries in North-Western Europe

Hansen, Hans - 2016

; Swedish benefits are the lowest or among the lowest, but very much in line with those in Germany. The benefits in the United …

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Bounding the Causal Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health : Nonparametric Evidence from Four Countries

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2017

different institutional settings – Australia, Germany, the UK, and the US – using a nonparametric bounds analysis. Relying on … health in all countries. Our results rule out effects larger than a quarter of a standard deviation for Germany and half a …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014

centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …

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