Like most Western European countries, Germany stringently regulates dismissals and layoffs. Critics contend that this … Germany. We find little evidence that inventories help to buffer demand fluctuations in either country. Our findings suggest …

and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of … household wealth: about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. The higher share in Germany narrows the wealth gap between … Germany, augmented wealth (US$651,000) is only 1.4 times higher. Further, the inclusion of pension wealth in household wealth …

preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

A brief historical overview of the household equipment revolution and the women who transformed the home in Germany and …

economic mobility. Using standard measures of mobility (with panel data for the western states of Germany and the U.S.) over … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … significantly over the years immediately following reunification in Germany but not in the U.S …

we examine retail bank lending in Germany using a unique data set of German savings banks during the period 2006 through … bank lending and find that the US financial crisis induced a contraction in the supply of retail lending in Germany. While …