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Fiscal policy, human capital, and Canada-US labor market integration
Wildasin, David E. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001799693
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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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Life satisfaction
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both … determinant of global life satisfaction, it is more important in the U.S. than in The Netherlands. Indeed life satisfaction varies … 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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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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Tall or taller, pretty or prettier : is discrimination absolute or relative?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2012
Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545351
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Protecting working-age people with disabilities : experiences of four industrialized nations
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Daly, Mary C.; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295543
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Does employment protection reduce the demand for unskilled labor?
Daniel, Kirsten (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
using annual distributions of recruits' characteristics from a 1975-95 panel of plants in Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002265112
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How different are immigrants? : A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and … the USA. The first step of the analysis shows how far countries differ regarding immigrants' educational disadvantage. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002485607
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International comparisons of work disability
Banks, James; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002005406
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Thresholds in the process of international financial integration
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Taylor, Ashley D. - 2009
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has not been able to conclusively establish the presumed growth benefits of financial integration....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831857