scholarly journals American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Jantti ◽  
Bernt Bratsberg ◽  
Knut Røed ◽  
Oddbjørn Raaum ◽  
Robin A. Naylor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Earnings Mobility ◽  
The United Kingdom

Intergenerational Earnings Mobilities – How Sensitive are they to Income Measures?

2009 ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Mohammad Azhar Hussain ◽  
Martin D. Munk ◽  
Jens Bonke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hourly Wage ◽  
Earnings Mobility ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Public Transfers ◽  
Annual Earnings

This article gives various estimates of intergenerational earnings mobility by applying different earning periods, age brackets, and earning components. The methodology enables us to investigate how sensitive results are to different delimitations and, thereby, to make more accurate international comparisons of intergenerational earnings mobility. We find that intergenerational earnings mobility is found to be substantially lower when hourly wage rates rather than annual earnings are used, whether the latter are inclusive or exclusive of public transfers. Moreover, when the same specifications are applied for Denmark as for other countries, we find that intergenerational earnings mobility from father to son in Denmark is on the same level as in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, whereas the intergenerational earnings mobility in all the Nordic countries is found to be higher than in the United Kingdom and the United States.

scholarly journals A Comparative Discussion of the Judicial Disqualification of Directors under the South African Companies Act

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Rehana Cassim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
South African ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Locus Standi

Abstract Section 162 of the South African Companies Act 71 of 2008 empowers courts to declare directors delinquent and hence to disqualify them from office. This article compares the judicial disqualification of directors under this section with the equivalent provisions in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America, which have all influenced the South African act. The article compares the classes of persons who have locus standi to apply to court to disqualify a director from holding office, as well as the grounds for the judicial disqualification of a director, the duration of the disqualification, the application of a prescription period and the discretion conferred on courts to disqualify directors from office. It contends that, in empowering courts to disqualify directors from holding office, section 162 of the South African Companies Act goes too far in certain respects.

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