Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a … context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods … (favorable) impact on investment. …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

Germany and France are both Continental European welfare states with severe labor market problems such as low …

Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …

distressed areas, CDCs are fundamentally limited in terms of reversing the processes of community decline. Our comparison of CDCs …

with an increase in the share of the top percentile group. Likewise, a fall in the marginal tax rate on investment income …

composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score … treatment effects approach that accounts for the possible endogenous nature of time use and human capital investment. Result …