promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France …, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …

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 …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … finding, and job filling within each country. This robust set of facts guides and disciplines the development of a theory of …

a month. A theory-driven two-factor model featuring the green factor explains much of the recent underperformance of …

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

2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections …Both the US and Germany are expected to undergo demographic aging, but their demographic fundamentals differ starkly … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …