large economies, USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. The empirical results show that although the pure NGARCH …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

States and Germany where the equivalent of the Bay-Dole-Act has come into force only in 2002. Based on a sample of more than … 800 university scientists, our results show similar relationships for the United States and Germany. Faculty quality which …

econometric analysis of firm performance in Germany. Based on a unique panel data set with detailed information on almost 400 … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads … general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …