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Fiscal federalism : an international comparison

Seidel, Bernhard; Vesper, Dieter - 1999

In federal systems, the powers and responsibilities must be divided up between central government and individual states in such a way as to enable the center effectively to carry out its duties for the nation as a whole, while allowing the lower levels of government to pursue their own regional...

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Lohnspreizung und Arbeitslosigkeit : theoretische Erklärungsansätze und Stand empirischer Forschung

Kohnz, Simone; Erber, Georg - 2000

Arbeitsmarktes 4. Stand der empirischen Forschung zur Lohnspreizung in den USA 4.1. Quantitativer Einfluß der Nachfrage- und …

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Personelle Einkommensverteilung und der Einfluß von Imputed Rent

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2000

(PSID) für die USA verglichen. Abschließend erfolgen aufgrund theoretischer Vorüberlegungen und der empirischen Ergebnisse …

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Child poverty dynamics in seven nations

Bradbury, Bruce; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2000

This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … transition has led to a much higher degree of mobility. Interestingly, the USA, which has the highest level of relative poverty …Der vorliegende Beitrag vergleicht die Armutsdynamik bei Kindern mithilfe von Paneldaten aus sieben Ländern: USA …

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Life course risks, mobility regimes, and mobility consequences : a comparison of Sweden, Germany, and the U.S.

DiPrete, Thomas A. - 2001

Intragenerational mobility has been a central concern in sociology, especially in the latter half of the 20th century. Most of this analysis has proceeded using measures of social position that are functions of an individual's occupation. This approach has been based on two primary...

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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent : a cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002 - This version: 17 July 2002

across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the … 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the USA and in Britain relative to Germany were mostly accounted for by higher …

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US outlook and German confidence: does the confidence channel work?

Horn, Gustav A. - 2003

One channel of business cycle shock transmission which gained attraction only recently is the confidence channel. The aim of the paper is to find out whether the confidence channel is actually working between the US and Germany. This is analysed using times series methods. In contrast to other...

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Do cross-national differences in the costs of children generate cross-national differences in fertility rates?

DiPrete, Thomas A.; Morgan, S. Philip; … - 2003

Parity-specific probabilities of having a next birth are estimated from national fertility data and are compared with nation-specific costs of having children as measured by time-budget data, by attitude data from the International Social Survey Program, and by panel data on labor earnings and...

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Trends in income inequality, pro-poor income growth and income mobility

Jenkins, Stephen; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2003

how it was possible both for "the poor" to have fared badly relatively to "the rich" in the USA during the 1980s (when … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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