- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes …

Germany, where East German data on economic activity are unavailable for detailed regional levels and historical time series …

the first evaluation of the impact of global terror on human welfare. We combine panel datasets for Australia, Germany …, Russia, Switzerland, the UK and the US. Individual well-being information for 750,000 individual x year observations …

net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable … during the training period for firms in Switzerland, even though the two training systems are rather similar. This paper … between the two countries can be explained by a higher share of productive tasks allocated to apprentices in Switzerland and …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and …

immigrants in Germany show that ethnic identity is important for the decision to work and significantly and differentially …