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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany

Bell, Linda A. - 2000

This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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Reservation Raises : The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin

Mui, Preston; Schoefer, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We measure extensive-margin labor supply (employment) preferences in two representative surveys of the U.S. and German populations. We elicit reservation raises: the percent wage change that renders a given individual indifferent between employment and nonemployment. It is equal to her...

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Derivatives Usage in Risk Management by US and German Non-Financial Firms : A Comparative Survey

Bodnar, Gordon M. - 1998

be driven by the greater importance of financial accounting statements in Germany than the US and stricter German …

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Monetary Policy in Japan, Germany and the United States : Does One Size Fit All?

Chinn, Menzie D. - 1997

We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese monetary policy is that there are significant differences...

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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91

Blau, Francine D. - 1997

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … evidence that the large public sector in Germany in effect functions as an employer of last resort, absorbing some otherwise …

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Labor Earnings Mobility and Inequality in the United States and Germany During the Growth Years of the 1980s

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 1997

prime age men and women in the United States and Germany during the growth years of the 1980s. Despite major differences in …-specific differences among men, while in Germany random shocks are found to persist longer for men. Women in Germany and the United States …

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Who Works When? Evidence from the U.S. and Germany

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1995

This study uses data for the U.S. from the May 1991 CPS and for Germany from the 1990 wave of the Socioeconomic Panel … little human capital; 4) Minority workers in the U.S. and the foreign-born in Germany are especially likely to work at these …

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Policy Transferability and Hysteresis : Daily and Weekly Hours in the BRD and the US

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1994

U.S. and Germany …

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Aging in Germany and the United States : International Comparisons

Borsch-Supan, Axel - 1993

subsidies on retirement, savings and housing choices in the two countries. Germany faces a particularly pronounced aging process … percent at its peak in 2030. In this respect, changes that are occurring in Germany now may be regarded as indicative for … changes to come in the United States. Retirement, savings and housing behavior differ quite markedly between Germany and the …

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