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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries

Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

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Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries

Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

In this paper, the inter-industry wage structure in West Germany and USA is compared using the German Socio …

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Temporary Migration and Economic Assimilation

Dustmann, Christian - 2000

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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Testing for Asymmetry in British, German and US Unemployment Data

Kohns, Stephan - 2001

Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...

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O brother, where art thou? The effects of having a sibling on geographic mobility and labor market outcomes

Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2005

In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care responsibilities and family structure interact children's mobility characteristics. A key insight we obtain is that...

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Capital deepening and wage differentials: Germany vs. US

Koeniger, Winfried; Leonardi, Marco - 2006

workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complementary to unskilled workers … evidence consistent with this view based on an industry panel for West Germany and the US between the 1970s and 1990s. We show … that capital equipment per worker is less positively associated with the wage differential in West Germany than in the US …

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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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