-economic reasoning: An economic and fiscal crisis is a potent catalyst for reforms, but a powerful bureaucracy effectively constrains the …

, Germany, Japan and the USA taking into account the different regulation schemes in these countries. We concentrate on … only applies to a limited extent. In the 1960s and 1970s, the USA has established a lead market for SC und USC technologies … leader in the market segment of low and middle quality boilers, whereas Japan and Germany still dominate the world turbine …

States and Germany where the equivalent of the Bay-Dole-Act has come into force only in 2002. Based on a sample of more than … 800 university scientists, our results show similar relationships for the United States and Germany. Faculty quality which …

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 …