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Canary in a coal mine : infant mortality, property values, and tradeoffs associated with mid-20th century air pollution
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2016
Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457393
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The wage policy of firms : comparative evidence for the US and Germany from personnel data
Grund, Christian - 2002
The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414006
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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2015
World Input Output Database (WIOD). We also explore the consequences of labor mobility across local labor markets in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516481
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Do more of those in misery suffer from poverty, unemployment or mental illness?
Fleche, Sarah; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2015
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308598
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The changing distribution of job satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295417
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006185
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Everybody's a victim? : global terror, well-being and political attitudes
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Elsayed, Ahmed - 2018
the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872810
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Industry wage differentials revisited : a longitudinal comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318606
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325992