Showing 1 - 10 of 11,035
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275905
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274842
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695639
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306481
implementing them. We focus on Brazil, which instituted five changes in its capital account regime over 2008 - 2011. Using the … synthetic control method, we construct counterfactuals (i.e., Brazil with no policy change) for each of these changes. We find … regarding the government's larger intentions and sensibilities. In the case of Brazil, its left-of-center government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397230
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil … during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286863
Over the last two decades, New Zealand experienced a threefold increase in housing prices. The largest surge in prices in recent years occurred between 1998 and 2007, a period of housing price growth in many developed economies. Since 2007, housing price growth remained flat until 2011, and then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115678
der Erstellung eines Gutachtens zum Thema "Methoden der Steuerschätzung im internationalen Vergleich" beauftragt. Im … Ergebnis zeigte der Vergleich der Methoden der Steuerschätzung eine Reihe von Unterschieden zwischen den Praktiken der Länder … Transparenz und Dokumentation. Zusammenfassend offenbart der internationale Vergleich der Methoden der Steuerschätzung …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698399
national teams: Belgium, Brazil, England, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. We analyze qualifying matches for the European … Cup. We find that the national teams of Germany, England and the Netherlands are more likely than the three other national … teams of Brazil and Italy only conceded one goal in the last minute. As to winning penalty shootouts, Germany outperforms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276911