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The Size and Performance of Public Sector Activities in Europe

Handler, Heinz; Koebel, Bertrand; Reiss, Philipp; … - 2005

The obvious difference in the economic performance of countries has led to the question why some countries are so much wealthier than others, and whether the size, the structure, and the organisation of the public sector contribute to cross-country income and growth gaps. Public sector...

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The European Socio-Economic Model. Differences to the USA and Changes over Time

Aiginger, Karl; Guger, Alois - 2005

This paper analyses the main characteristics of the European Socio-Economic Model. We discuss how the model varies across countries within Europe, examine how the model has changed over time and compare the European model with the corresponding US model. While the differences with regard of...

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An Evaluation of the Forecasting Performance of Three Econometric Models for the Eurozone and the USA

Krainz, David Mortimer - 2011

This paper compares the forecasting performance of three different econometric models for the Eurozone and the USA: a …

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Returns to Self-Employment Experience in the Wage and Salary Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States

Trzcinski, Eileen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 177-183

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Changes in Permanent Income Inequality in the United States and Germany in the 1990s

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Butler, J.S.; Houtenville, Andrew J. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 284-289

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Fiscal Federalism - an International Comparison

Seidel, Bernhard; Vesper, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 3, pp. 449-472

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The "IT Productivity Paradox" Revisited: International Comparisons of Information Technology, Work Organisation and Productivity in Service Industries

Mason, Geoff; Wagner, Karin; Finegold, David; Keltner, Brent - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 69 (2000) 4, pp. 618-629

, zumindest in den USA, auf der Firmenebene gelöst wurde, bleiben noch einige Unklarheiten auf den Ebenen von Branchen- und … Arbeitsproduktivität durch Vergleiche von entsprechenden Stichproben im Banken- und Hotelgewerbe in den USA, Deutschland und England. In …

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Pathways into Self-Employment in the United States and Germany

McManus, Patricia A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 24-30

compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational … credentials are more important for stabilizing self-employment in the United States than in Germany, where the lack of credentials … is a significant deterrent to self-employment entry. Intergenerational transmission of self-employment is more prominent …

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Early Career Experiences and Later Career Outcomes: Comparing the United States, France and Germany

Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique; Vilhuber, Lars - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 31-38

This paper explores the links between individuals' early career experiences and their labor market outcomes 5 to 20 years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we consider a large set of measures of men's early career...

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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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