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Are Japanese households financially healthy, and if so, why? A Group of Seven (G7) comparison

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2012

In this paper, I conduct an international comparison of the financial health of households using data on household wealth and indebtedness for the Group of Seven (G7) countries and show that, even though household borrowings in Japan were the highest among the G7 countries, at least until 2000,...

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A four country comparison of spite, cooperation and errors in voluntary contribution mechanisms

Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2000

Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution …

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What makes people anxious about life after the age of 65? Evidence from international survey research in Japan, the United States, and China

Kadoya, Yoshihiko - 2012

In order to respond to the social security needs of an increasingly aged population, many governments with limited budgets are required to focus available resources on the direct causes of people's anxieties about aging. This study investigated the causes of people's anxieties about life after...

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Returns to Self-Employment Experience in the Wage and Salary Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States

Trzcinski, Eileen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 177-183

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Changes in Permanent Income Inequality in the United States and Germany in the 1990s

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Butler, J.S.; Houtenville, Andrew J. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 284-289

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Fiscal Federalism - an International Comparison

Seidel, Bernhard; Vesper, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 3, pp. 449-472

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The "IT Productivity Paradox" Revisited: International Comparisons of Information Technology, Work Organisation and Productivity in Service Industries

Mason, Geoff; Wagner, Karin; Finegold, David; Keltner, Brent - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 618-629

, zumindest in den USA, auf der Firmenebene gelöst wurde, bleiben noch einige Unklarheiten auf den Ebenen von Branchen- und … Arbeitsproduktivität durch Vergleiche von entsprechenden Stichproben im Banken- und Hotelgewerbe in den USA, Deutschland und England. In …

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Pathways into Self-Employment in the United States and Germany

McManus, Patricia A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 24-30

compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational … credentials are more important for stabilizing self-employment in the United States than in Germany, where the lack of credentials … is a significant deterrent to self-employment entry. Intergenerational transmission of self-employment is more prominent …

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Early Career Experiences and Later Career Outcomes: Comparing the United States, France and Germany

Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique; Vilhuber, Lars - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 31-38

This paper explores the links between individuals' early career experiences and their labor market outcomes 5 to 20 years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we consider a large set of measures of men's early career...

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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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