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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254299
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106961
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The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment : A Comparison between the EU and the US
Castellani, Davide - 2016
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990873
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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141699
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038
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The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio - 2013
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071747
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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261669
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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506080
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131163