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In early 2003, France actively tried to thwart the plans of the Bush administration to build international support for …
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United Kingdom is similar to the US pattern. France had less progressive taxes than the US or UK in 1970 but has experienced …
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We develop a method to compare levels and trends in inequality in mortality in the United States and France in a … similar framework. The comparison shows that while income inequality has increased in both the United States and France …, inequality in mortality in France remained remarkably low and stable. In the United States, inequality in mortality increased for …
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This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the …
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This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed over time, especially in Quebec. This decline appears...
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incorporates both output (sales or turnover) and cash flow as predictors for investment. Our focus is on two comparisons: France …
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This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...
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We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of …
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freer nor more flexible than that in France during this critical period. Not only did U.S. law offer enterprises a more … France to improve the menu of choices. To the contrary, it was not until the late twentieth century that U.S. business …
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