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Comparing living and working conditions : Germany outperforms the United States

Priewe, Jan - 2024

This paper compares living and working conditions in the U.S. and Germany for the year 2022 with a focus on economic, social and environmental standards. Twelve dimensions of comparison are used, split into 15 themes, which are examined with 80 indicators. Subjective indicators based on polls or...

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Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen in Deutschland und den USA im Vergleich : Analysen Wohlstandsmessung

Priewe, Jan - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 104 (2024) 6, pp. 407-412

Ein Vergleich der Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen in den USA und in Deutschland im Jahr 2022 zeigt, dass Deutschland bei … einer Vielzahl von Indikatoren besser abschneidet als die USA. Gemessen werden die Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen anhand von … zwölf Dimensionen unter Rückgriff auf über 80 Subindikatoren. Zum Vergleich: Der traditionelle Indikator BIP, der oft für …

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The political economy of the next pandemic

Bergeijk, Peter A. G. van - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 14 (2022) 1, pp. 27-49

While the pandemic and recovery unfold in real time, this article investigates some of the major themes on preparations for the next pandemic. Humanity cannot rely on modern medicine to beat the next 'disease X' and the world cannot afford the extortionate health and economic policy...

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Comparison of housing affordability in Czech and Polish regions

Slavata, David; Ardielli, Eva; Maciejasz, Marta - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 24 (2024) 1, pp. 17-36

Great differences are observed in the way of living, the quality of living, and the type of property ownership in individual countries of the world. However, housing affordability is currently a significant issue in every developed country. At the same time, it is also an important factor of...

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Assessing macroeconomic uncertainties for an emerging economy

Bicchal, Motilal; Durai S., Raja Sethu - 2020

This study constructs the macroeconomic uncertainty indices for an emerging economy, India, and considers other macroeconomic uncertainty indices to evaluate their relative effectiveness in terms of tracing the business cycles and finding out the transmission channels consistent with theory. The...

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"Comparative (bio)economic systems" in terms of social responsibility : the natural environment : between ideal capitalism, utopian socialism and real-world interventionism

Iacob, Mihaela; Gherghina, Rodica; Crețan, Georgiana … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 52, pp. 707-727

Comparative judgements related to economic systems (along with pending political ideologies) represent a subject of investigation that, at first glance, appertains to the "ABC" of social sciences, although the "literacy" of policy-makers, business officials, or public opinion reveals surprising...

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The comparative African regional economics of globalization in financial allocation efficiency : the pre-crisis era revisited

Asongu, Simplice; Nnanna, Joseph; Tchamyou, Vanessa - In: Financial innovation : FIN 6 (2020) 3, pp. 1-41

This study assesses the role of globalization-fueled regionalization policies on the financial allocation efficiency of four economic and monetary regions in Africa from 1980 to 2008. Banking and financial system efficiency proxies are used as dependent variables and seven bundled and unbundled...

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Varieties of the rat race : working hours in the age of abundance

Behringer, Jan; Gonzalez Granda, Martin; Treeck, Till van - 2022

We ask why working hours in the rich world have not declined more sharply or even risen at times since the early 1980s, despite a steady increase in productivity, and why they vary so much across rich countries. We use an internationally comparable database on working hours (Bick et al., 2019)...

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Varieties of the rat race : working hours in the age of abundance

Behringer, Jan; Gonzalez Granda, Martin; Treeck, Till van - 2022

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Immigration, ethnic fractionalization, and the fiscal burden in the OECD

Guerrero, Federico; Parker, Elliott - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 11 (2022) 1, pp. 7-30

This study considers the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on government spending in 31 OECD countries over 25 years and compares the marginal effects for expenditures and revenues to approximate the fiscal burden. Results suggest that ethnic fractionalization, not immigration itself,...

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