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Income Inequality in the 1990s: Comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany

The Employment and Economic Well Being of Working-Age Men with Disabilities: Comparing Outcomes in Australia, Germany, and Great Britain with the United States

Comparing Economic Outcomes of Populations with Disabilities - A Method for Comparing the Economic Outcomes of the Working-Age Population with Disabilities in Germany and the United States

Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales

The German Socio-Economic Panel after Ten Years

The Importance of Education on the Labor Market - Mobility of Prime Age Males in the United States and Germany in the 1980s

The politics of credit claiming: Rights and recognition in health policy feedback

Why do governments recognize rights? In this article, we rely on natural experiments and an innovative matching technique to identify a new causal mechanism of policy feedback, which we refer to as the “recognition” effect. We rely on the “hard case” of health care to demonstrate that attitudes towards the health system change in response to government policy change and, indeed, even to rights-based ...

Solving RE models with discontinuous policy rules – an application to minimum wage setting in Germany

The legal regulations require the minimum wage in Germany to be adjusted biennially which gives rise to a policy discontinuity. From the perspective of rational expectations models, such policy features render standard local approximation techniques infeasible. The article presents a stylized model in which negotiated wages and corporate profits are the outcome of an optimization problem, while changes ...

The Age Profile of Income and the Burden of Unfunded Transfers in Four Countries: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study

Income Distribution; Weekly Hours of Work, and Time for Child Rearing: The U.S. Experience in a Cross-National Context