We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work … during early motherhood leads to regular full-time work later. We find that in Sweden, by the time the first child is four … concentrated in the public sector in all four countries, it is relatively less concentrated there in Sweden. Our results emphasize …

Arbeitslosigkeit und Sozialstaat in Deutschland eine Rolle. In den USA werden rund 15% aller zivilen Erwarbsarbeitsverhältnisse durch … sind. Der Stellenwert solcher Einkommenssubventionen für Niedriglohnverdiener dürfte in Deutschland anders zu begründen und …

einige schwache Anzeichen für ein gemeinsames Konjunkturmuster für Frankreich, die Niederlande, Österreich und Deutschland … clearly rejected for U.K. data whereas some weak evidence for a joint cyclical pattern is found for France, The Netherlands …, Austria and Germany. …

This paper reviews changing income distributions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, treating the three … ignored. It is shown that in the United States and Germany changes in market incomes favored the upper quintiles and that the … bottom quintile became worse off. Government did nothing to reverse these trends. In the Netherlands the trend in market …