economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …

principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the … US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of … household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …

lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …

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

, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden …

Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …