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Das Recht der Wettbewerbsbeschränkungen in den nordischen Staaten
Sommer, Eberhard - 1964
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000599320
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Household Income Distribution and Hours of Work: An International Comparison
Anxo, Dominique; Flood, Lennart - 1999
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, to analyze the relationship between the distribution of household income and the distribution of working time in six European countries and in the United States. The second objective is to assess how the tax and transfer systems affect the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652933
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The Family Gap in Pay: Evidence from Seven Industrialized Countries
Harkness, Susan; Waldfogel, Jane - 1999
In this paper we use microdata on employment and earnings from a variety of industrialized countries to investigate the family gap in pay - the differential in hourly wages between women with children and women without children. We present results from seven countries: Australia, Canada, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652945
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On the Distribution of Income in Five Countries
DeNardi, Mariacristina; Ren, Liqian; Wei, Chao - 2000
The goal of this study is to look at different countries, study their redistribution policies and discuss the effects of the redistribution/incentives tradeoff. Since we want to look at countries that display different degrees of government intervention, we pick countries belonging to both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652953
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Gender Agency at the Intersection of State, Market and Family: Changes in Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply in Eight Countries
Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2001
Current debates on the welfare state entail two intertwined questions. First, does a nation have sufficient active labor force participation to maintain the benefits for non-participants? Second, do social provisions exacerbate or attenuate class, ethnic and other distinctions within society? As...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652975
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Trends of Poverty and Income Inequality in Cross-National Comparison
Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2001
Comparative research of poverty, income inequality and the effectiveness of income transfer systems has flourished during the last two decades, largely owing to the contribution of the Luxembourg Income Study project. So far, however, the majority of comparative analyses have been based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011652998
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Altersteilzeit: Erfahrungen und Diskussionen in Deutschland und anderen EU-Ländern
Lindecke, Christiane; Voss-Dahm, Dorothea; Lehndorff, … - 2007
Arbeitszeit senken - umgesetzt wurde.Die Erfahrungen mit graduellen Ausstiegspfaden und besonders der Altersteilzeit in Schweden …, Finnland, Dänemark und den Niederlanden geben einen Einblick in die Such- und Experimentierprozesse in anderen europäischen … Schweden wird allerdings deutlich, dass Regulierungen für den graduellen Ausstieg auch in die entgegengesetzte Richtung wirken …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011315285
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Business strategy and firm reorganization under changing market conditions
Ghosal, Vivek - 2009
This study is framed against the increasingly stringent environmental demands on the pulp and paper industry since the late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266037
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267998