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Gender differences in business performance : evidence from the characteristics of business owners survey
Fairlie, Robert W. (contributor);  … - 2008
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759326
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American exceptionalism in a new light : a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States
Jäntti, Markus (contributor) - 2006
We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332255
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Comparing the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics in Europe and the USA
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor);  … - 2008
received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793403
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
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Life satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
substantially more with income in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. -- Happiness ; life satisfaction ; vignettes ; reporting bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003810881
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The paradox of declining female happiness
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2009
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men. The paradox of women's declining relative well-being is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859341
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International differences in longevity and health and their economic consequences
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009
In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003893888
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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
commonly referred to as "differential item functioning" (DIF). A specific form of DIF is justification bias: to justify the … than working respondents. In this paper we use anchoring vignettes to identify justification bias and other forms of DIF … significant evidence of justification bias in the U.S. but not in Europe, suggesting differences in social norms concerning work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison
Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896465
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ORU analyses of immigrant earnings in Australia, with international comparisons
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the native-born/foreign-born differential in the payoff to schooling developed by Chiswick and Miller...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898600