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Tax rates on labour income across the OECD area
How high is the US #tax burden on labor? Here's an OECD comparison tax.foundation/1KojUv9 by @samcjordan_ @kpomerleau http://t.co/fSAT8ut52z— Tax Foundation (@taxfoundation) July 24, 2015Filed under:...
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@mattyglesias Swedosclerosis, Eurosclerosis and the British disease compared
Figure 1 shows stark differences between Sweden, France, Italy and the UK since 1970 in departures from trend growth rates of 1.9% in real GDP per working age person, PPP. Italy did quite OK until 2000...
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Any progress ever on the gender wage gap in France, Germany, Sweden and...
Our friends on the Left go on about how wonderful place Sweden is despite its gender gap being stuck for 35 years. Not much better in Norway and in Germany and France for that matter. Figure 1: gender...
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French unemployment incidence by duration since 1983
Nothing really changes in France recently unemployment duration. Italian labour market is notorious for having very low inflows and outflows from employment and unemployment. Source: OECD...
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Modern European borders superimposed over Europe in 1914
Modern European borders superimposed over Europe in 1914 immediately before World War ! – bit.ly/1BCI17c http://t.co/0vADDCvp2l— Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) December 12, 2014Filed under: defence...
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How @equitablegrowth showed inequality helps growth when arguing inequality...
The Washington Centre for Equitable Growth recently tweeted that inequality harms growth in the USA as compared to Sweden, France, Germany and the UK. It was relying on some dodgy OECD research. .@OECD...
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Union density rates in Germany, France and Italy
There are large differences in unionisation rates between the three countries. France has always had low levels of unionisation which halved since the 1970s. Italy had a sharp boost in union membership...
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% of unemployment that is more than 12 months, USA, UK, Germany and France
As the British labour market and long-term unemployment was starting to get something like that in the USA, the USA started to have unemployment it was more like the European labour markets in terms of...
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Vanishing effect of #religion on the labour market participation of European...
Vanishing effect of #religion on the labor market participation of European women newsroom.iza.org/en/2015/08/10/… http://t.co/25nx8NiEfk— IZA (@iza_bonn) August 10, 2015Filed under: economics of...
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France is holding its own on the demographic crisis
Filed under: population economics Tagged: ageing society, demographic crisis, economics of fertility, France, Japan, South Korea
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No Generation Rent in #Deutschland! Real housing prices in #Germany, #France...
Source: International House Price Database – Dallas Fed Note: The house price index series is an index constructed with nominal house price data. The real house price index is an index calculated by...
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Hours worked per working age American, British, French and Japanese since 1950
Source: Data extracted on 05 Oct 2015 22:01 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat and The Conference Board. 2015. The Conference Board Total Economy Database™, May 2015,...
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German, French and Italian real housing prices since 1975
Source and notes: International House Price Database – Dallas Fed June 2015; nominal housing prices for each country is deflated by the personal consumption deflator for that country. Filed under:...
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Top incomes and the decline of unions in Canada, France and Italy
Another big factor in the loss of bargaining clout is, of course, the decline in #unions: http://t.co/JwVGPWOMda pic.twitter.com/M7DARCgD0P — Jared Bernstein (@econjared) October 8, 2015 The French...
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French, German, Italian and British equilibrium unemployment rates, 1968 – 2017
Unlike the USA, the German, Italian, British and French equilibrium unemployment rates all show fluctuations that reflect changes in their underlying economic circumstances and labour market reforms....
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Eurosclerosis illustrated in the labour market
Source: Linda Regber. Filed under: economic history, Euro crisis, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, public economics Tagged: employment law, Eurosclerosis, France,...
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Employment status of sole parents in UK, USA, France, Italy, Australia,...
Despite supposedly having stingy welfare states, both New Zealand and Australia have a lot of sole parents who do not work at all. There is no separate breakdown of full-time and part-time work status...
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#GeorgeOrwell on @JeremyCorbyn4PM #pacifism and #Paris
Source: George Orwell: Pacifism and the War Filed under: defence economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, war and peace Tagged: British politics, France, game theory,...
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@equitablegrowth @PaulHannon29 Eurosclerosis, Swedosclerosis, the British...
.@OECD sees continued rise in growth-harming inequality, reports @PaulHannon29 http://t.co/hoH6HxjFNi pic.twitter.com/xt4heZysXT — Equitable Growth (@equitablegrowth) May 21, 2015 The Washington Centre...
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There was a measles outbreak in France a few years ago
Filed under: health economics Tagged: anti-vaccination movement, France, measles, vaccinations
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