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The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic

Banks, James; Marmot, Michael; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, … - 2006

In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and how those differences vary by Socio-Economic Status (SES) in both countries. Three SES measures are emphasized - education, household income, and household wealth - and the...

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Effectiveness of tax incentives to boost (retirement) saving: Theoretical motivation and empirical evidence

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Banks, James; Wakefield, Matthew - 2004

The adequacy of household saving for retirement has become a policy issue all around the world. The UK and US have been in the vanguard of those countries that have tried to encourage retirement saving by providing tax-favoured treatment for particular savings accounts. We consider empirical...

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Understanding the relative generosity of government financial support to families with children

Banks, James; Brewer, Mike - 2002

The principal of horizontal equity can be interpreted as requiring that households with the same pre-transfer incomes and the same consumption needs should receive the same post-transfer incomes. We argue the generosity of government financial support to families with children should be analysed...

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Offsetting versus mitigation activities to reduce CO2 emissions: A theoretical and empirical analysis for the US and Germany

Lange, Andreas; Ziegler, Andreas - 2012

This paper studies the voluntary provision of public goods that is partially driven by a desire to offset for individual polluting activities. We first extend existing theory and show that offsets allow a reduction in effective environmental pollution levels while not necessarily extending the...

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Economists, Incentives, Judgment, and Empirical Work

Colander, David C. - 2008

This paper asks the question: Why has the ?general-to-specific? cointegrated VAR approach as developed in Europe had only limited success in the US as a tool for doing empirical macroeconomics, where what might be called a ?theory comes first? approach dominates? The reason this paper highlights...

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Comparing the value revelance of R&D reporting in Germany: standard and selection effects

Ramb, Fred; Reitzig, Markus - 2005

On the basis of accounting and market data for firms and groups listed on German stock exchanges between 1997 and 2003, we show that the value relevance of R&D information under German accounting standards can be superior to that provided by US-GAAP and IAS. The results, obtained while...

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Kündigungsschutzrecht in den USA und in Deutschland: ein Beitrag zur ökonomischen Rechtsvergleichung

Kirstein, Roland; Kittner, Michael; Schmidtchen, Dieter - 2000

wird gezeigt, daß das Vorurteil unbegründet ist, der Kündigungsschutz sei in den USA ?schwächer? (arbeitgeberfreundlicher … Deutschland ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Abfindung höher, in den USA die Höhe der Zahlung). Eine institutionenökonomische … den USA. …

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Die Zyklik der Profite in der Ernährungswirtschaft: Ein internationaler Vergleich.

Koerner, Julia; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2001

der Profite verschiedener Branchen der Ernährungswirtschaft in Deutschland, den USA sowie den Niederlanden. Aus der … Branchen mit niedriger Konzentration in Deutschland sowie in sämtlichen Branchen der USA gering ist. Die Beobachtungen für …-cost-margins over the business cycle for food industries in Germany, the USA as well as the Netherlands. Controlling for market …

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Product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance: an empirical analysis for Germany

Januszewski, Silke I.; Köke, Jens; Winter, Joachim K. - 1999

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are two of the main reasons for this phenomenon. However,...

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