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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates

Pichler, Stefan - 2016

This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...

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Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Marx, Paul - 2019

-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …

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Multidimensional Affluence : Theory and Applications to Germany and the US

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

-being in Germany and the US in 2007 as well as for the US over the period 1989-2007. We find distinct country differences with … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

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Polarization and Rising Wage Inequality : Comparing the U.S. And Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk - 2010

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States : Any Differences?

Merkl, Christian - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2011

by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

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Canary in a Coal Mine : Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Clay, Karen - 2016

Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...

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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe : U.S. Hurricane Births

Evans, Richard W. - 2007

For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...

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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...

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