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The Eurocrisis : Muddling Through, or On the Way to a More Perfect Euro Union?

Aizenman, Joshua - 2014

institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro … to achieve a number of design objectives, and this may continue, as long as Germany does not shirk its growing … responsibility for the euro's future. Germany's resilience and dominant size within the EU may explain its "muddling …

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Tax Effects on Work Activity, Industry Mix and Shadow Economy Size : Evidence from Rich-Country Comparisons

Davis, Steven J. - 2004

Guided by a simple theory of task assignment and time allocation, we investigate the long run response to national differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in the market sector, increase the size of the shadow...

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Institutions vs. Policies : A Tale of Two Islands

Henry, Peter Blair - 2008

Recent work emphasizes the primacy of differences in countries' colonially-bequeathed property rights and legal systems for explaining differences in their subsequent economic development. Barbados and Jamaica provide a striking counter example to this long-run view of income determination. Both...

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Implicit Contracts, the Great Depression, and Institutional Change : A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Japanese Employment Relations, 1920-1940

Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2003

This paper employs a game-theoretic framework and a comparative historical analysis to study the impact of the Great Depression on corporate welfarism,' i.e., employers' voluntary provisions of non-wage benefits, greater employment security, and employee representation to their blue-collar...

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Political Economy in a Changing World

Acemoglu, Daron - 2013

We provide a general framework for the analysis of the dynamics of institutional change (e.g., democratization, extension of political rights or repression of different groups), and how these dynamics interact with (anticipated and unanticipated) changes in the distribution of political power...

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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?

Beaudry, Paul - 2000

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …

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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …

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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

.S transit agencies with transit agencies in Germany and the United Kingdom. We study U.S urban public sector energy efficiency …

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A Comparative Perspective on Long-Term Care Systems

Kotschy, Rainer; Bloom, David E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

adequate care quality. In the third step, we identify solutions for these challenges by comparing the care systems of Germany …

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Educational Inequality*

Blanden, Jo; Doepke, Matthias; Stuhler, Jan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...

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