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principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
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market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional … Netherlands should be more responsive to economic changes. On the other hand, there is unlikely to be such a divergence in capital … dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
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with an increase in the share of the top percentile group. Likewise, a fall in the marginal tax rate on investment income …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
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non-standard work. In Germany (and to a lesser extent Austria), marginal part-time provides a fertile ground for low …-paid service jobs, as non-wage labour costs are minimised. In France, fixed-term contracts are a flexible and also cheaper …
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In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using complete national income tax schedules, we calculate actual average and marginal tax rates at...
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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 …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of … household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First …, but with increments being smaller in the European data. Third, we find that wage risk is procyclical in Germany while it …
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lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
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