Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...

Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...

Verlagsinfo: Wie sieht Deutschlands Zukunft aus, wenn man sie wie die eines Unternehmens plant? Auf welche Stärken kann das Land bauen? Und was muss Deutschland heute tun, um in Zukunft erfolgreich zu sein? Die Antworten gibt der ""Geschäftsplan Deutschland"". Deutschland ist ein reiches Land;...

The ability-to-pay approach assesses taxes paid as a sacrifice by the taxpayers. This raises the question of how to define and how to measure it: in absolute, relative, or marginal terms? U.S. respondents prefer a tax schedule that is either a pure (absolute) Equal Sacrifice or a mixture of...