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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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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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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896465
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Failure to launch : cross-national trends in the transition to economic independence
English, Lisa Bellavance; Burtless, Gary; Gornick, Janet C. - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003407699
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Tax progression : international and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data
Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010
Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669281
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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959628
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Human capital investments in children : a comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States … case of leisure time and eating time. -- parent-child time ; comparative research ; welfare regimes ; Finland ; Germany … ; USA ; treatment effects ; propensity score matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779133
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Extensive vs. intensive margin in Germany and the United States : any differences?
Merkl, Christian; Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2010
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806578