(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …

This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the …

by comparing Germany and the US based on harmonized micro data. We find significant and robust differences between lower …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …

-conscious emotions into anger. The argument is tested with original survey data from France, Germany, and the United States. The … anti-elite rhetoric causes considerably higher expressed anger about one's financial situation in France and Germany, but …

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

-being in Germany and the US in 2007 as well as for the US over the period 1989-2007. We find distinct country differences with … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …

. First, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis to compare changes in the probability of working in bureaucracy after … points more likely to work in bureaucracy, and that positive selection on human capital can explain only 12 25 percent of … the campaign, or changes in perceptions of bureaucracy …

We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts … investment has been sunk, the bureaucracy may hold up the investor, using the threat of expropriation to demand a lower final …