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Labor earnings mobility and inequality in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Rhody, … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000624023
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The impact of pollution abatement investment on productivity change : an empirical comparison of the US, Germany, and Canada
Conrad, Klaus; Morrison, Catherine J. - 1985
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000687663
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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective
Bičáková, Alena (contributor);  … - 2008
rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … highest and most equally distributed homeownership in this country as well. The mortgage market in Germany is on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726010
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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003326113
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Income inequality in the 1990s : comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany
Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor);  … - 2006
and the Socio-Economic Panel in Germany we find gains from economic growth in the United States over their 1990s business …-1989). Furthermore, they were more equitably distributed than were the gains in Germany over their 1990s business cycle (1991 … States and Great Britain the entire income distribution moved upward in the 1990s. In Germany, as was the case in the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003315460
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Does the dispersion of unit labor cost dynamics in the EMU imply long-run divergence? : results from a comparison with the United States of America and Germany
Dullien, Sebastian (contributor);  … - 2007
Using unit labor cost (ULC) data from Euro area countries as well as US States and German La͏̈nder we investigate inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003439998
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Outward FDI and domestic investment
Herzer, Dierk (contributor);  … - 2007
-integration techniques to macroeconomic time series data for the United Sates and Germany. We show that the two countries differ: In the case … of the US, OFDI has positive long-run effects on domestic investment while in the case of Germany the reverse effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003440049
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339778
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Propagation and smoothing of shocks in alternative social security systems
Auerbach, Alan J.; Küng, Lorenz; Lee, Ronald Demos - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766888
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Life course risks, mobility regimes, and mobility consequences : a comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S.
DiPrete, Thomas A. - 2001
grown during the recent past. Meta-analysis of available evidence for Sweden, western Germany, and the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434311