Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,132
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139060
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122677
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870139
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978960
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146175
Cover Image
The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128216
Cover Image
What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Facchini, Giovanni - 2011
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128227
Cover Image
Income Taxation of U.S. Households : Basic Facts
Guner, Nezih - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of the joint distributions of taxes paid and income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128832
Cover Image
Does it Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Lee, Jungmin - 2011
Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and unobservable components using the PSID. They found that the unobservable part contributed significantly not only to the rapidly shrinking earnings gap in the 1980s, but also to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129914
Cover Image
Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers
Monaco, Kristen A. - 2011
Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find that truckers' wages experienced a decrease in inequality post-deregulation, as expected given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131159