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Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...
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The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm, in this paper two plants of the same owners with similar production processes in different institutional...
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treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …
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preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …
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World Input Output Database (WIOD). We also explore the consequences of labor mobility across local labor markets in Germany …
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Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia …, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the lowest levels of life-satisfaction suffer …
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In this paper, I study temporary migrations, and its consequences for immigrants' behaviour. I distinguish between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous, and temporary migrations where the migrant chooses when to return. I then illustrate the consequences both types of...
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rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …
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disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …
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go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …
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