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Efficient and inefficient welfare states

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Sangnier, Marc - 2011

This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...

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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies

Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008

US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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The role of parental income over the life cycle: A comparison of Sweden and the UK

Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Nybom, Martin - 2012

the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

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Measuring unemployment insurance generosity

Pallage, Stéphane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - 2008

In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are multdimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods, eligibility duration, benefit...

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The long shadow of income on trustworthiness

Ermisch, John; Gambetta, Diego - 2011

large effect on trustworthiness compared to that predicted by the relative income theory, and this leads us to suspect that …

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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain

Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1999

We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor Force Survey and The Russian Longitudinal Monitor Survey we compare the pattern of turnover with a...

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Overtime Work, Overtime Compensation and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being: Evidence for West Germany and Great Britain

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Using panel data for West Germany and Great Britain, we show that there are striking differences in overtime work and overtime compensation in the two countries in the 1990s. Our estimates reveal that the observed overtime patterns affect both the evolution of the monthly labour earnings...

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Do labour market institutions matter? Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - 2007

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...

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The public pay gap in Britain: small differences that (don't?) matter

Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - 2005

The existing literature on inequality between private and public sectors focuses on cross-section differences in earnings levels. A more general way of looking at inequality between sectors is to recognize that forward-looking agents will care about income and job mobility too. We show that...

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