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Creating new administrative data to describe the scientific workforce : the STAR METRICS program

Lane, Julia; Schwarz, Lou - 2012

the National Science Foundation. The contribution of the paper is threefold. First it describes in a non-technical fashion …

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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries

Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...

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Understanding the technology of computer technology diffusion : explaining computer adoption patterns and implications for the wage structure

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008

foundation for the CES production function that allows for changes in the underlying structure. We adapt the macro model by …

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O brother, where art thou? : The effects of having a sibling on geographic mobility and labor market outcomes

Rainer, Helmut (contributor); Siedler, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact children's mobility characteristics. A key insight we obtain is that...

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Capital deepening and wage differentials : Germany vs. US

Koeniger, Winfried (contributor); … - 2006

workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complementary to unskilled workers … evidence consistent with this view based on an industry panel for West Germany and the US between the 1970s and 1990s. We show … that capital equipment per worker is less positively associated with the wage differential in West Germany than in the US …

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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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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 …

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The rise and fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany

Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009

The following paper attempts to trace the construction of the standard employment contract in Germany from the … consolidation of the welfare state, this type of employment was reinforced in Germany in the 20th century and finally developed into … anachronistic and obsolete. -- Economic history ; standard employment ; Germany …

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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 …

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Do women manage smaller funds?

Hübler, Olaf; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2010

Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at the lower end of the hierarchy, as quantile...

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