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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335242
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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on … substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US, while the more predominantly studied father-son measures remained … in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280839
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Does daylight saving time really make us sick?
Jin, Lawrence; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
.4 million BRFSS respondents from the US and the universe of 160 million hospital admissions from Germany over one decade, we do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529402
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Population policies, demographic structural changes, and the Chinese household saving puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672255
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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008
, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652710
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777874
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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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 … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434591