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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

education spending and teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary … countries could explain Germans' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between different categories of …

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Rising earnings inequality in Sweden : the role of composition and prices

Domeij, David - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 110 (2008) 3, pp. 609-634

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Equal pay for equal work? : Evidence from Sweden and a comparison with Norway and the US

Milgrom, Eva M. Meyersson; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, … - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 103 (2001) 4, pp. 559-583

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Training systems and labor mobility : a comparison between Germany and Sweden

Korpi, Tomas; Mertens, Antje - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 105 (2003) 4, pp. 597-617

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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy

Davis, Steven J. - 2000

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 and compare it to the U.S. distribution over the...

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Markets, Governments, and the Institutional Structure of Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and Sweden in the 20th Century

Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Social welfare spending on health, welfare, and insurance against adverse outcomes expanded a great deal in all of the developed countries during the 20th century. The institutional structure of the spending varies with respect to the extent that governments or market institutions provide the...

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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--

King, Mervyn A. - 1983

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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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--

King, Mervyn A. - 1983

This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for COVID-19 : Meta-Analysis & Public Policy Implications

Levin, Andrew T. - 2020

To assess age-specific infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID-19, we have conducted a systematic review of seroprevalence studies as well as countries with comprehensive tracing programs. Age-specific IFRs were computed using the prevalence data in conjunction with reported fatalities four...

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