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labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income … mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational mobility. There are pronounced nonlinearities …
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Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high ….S. Despite generous Danish social policies, family influence on important child outcomes in Denmark is about as strong as it is …
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who came through the employment channel are more likely to be in full-time paid work. In Denmark, however, the status at …
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between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
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, thereby protecting workers against firm-specific risks. Indeed, in Denmark, workers bear less firm-specific risk than workers …
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We re-analyze the effects of a Danish active labour market program social experiment that included a range of sub-treatments, including monitoring, job search assistance and training. Previous studies have shown that the overall effect of the experiment is positive. We apply newly developed...
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Canada and Denmark, with 30 to 40% of young adults having at some point been employed with a firm that also employed their …
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jobs? And who destroys the most jobs? In the crisis Denmark lost 186,000 jobs in the private sector. The question is where … in and out of jobs. We have for Denmark found that size on its own does not have a big impact, but young firms are much …
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If income pooling indicates primary earners' willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for...
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