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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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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries
Clark, Kenneth - 2009
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as the endogeneity of initial conditions we find positive, statistically significant state dependence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159505
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Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession : Evidence from Micro Data
Verdugo, Gregory - 2015
We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great Recession. Average real wages are found to be acyclical, but this reflects, in large part, the effect of changes in the composition of the labour force related to unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012041
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The Over-Education Wage Penalty Among Phd Holders : A European Perspective
Rycx, Francois; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral graduates are surprisingly scarce. This article aims to fill this gap, not only by measuring the prevalence of over-educated PhD holders in Europe (i.e. in EU Member States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081009
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Organisational Gender Pay Gaps in the UK : What Happened Post-Transparency?
Jones, Melanie K.; Kaya, Ezgi - 2022
Since April 2017 UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to publicly report their gender pay gap each year. We exploit this recent source of panel data on employer-level gender pay gaps to provide new insights for the established literature on the gender pay gap based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082641
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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