This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our … calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S., we show that the distributions of both wages and productivity have spread … out over time, as the right tail lengthens for both. We add OECD countries, showing that the wage-productivity correlation …

average household, an indication that they may reduce inequality in disposable incomes. Such is the case of reducing …

costs, were remuneration equalizesa to productivity. The aim of this essay, is to analyse and state whelther such …

-side channel: capital, labor, and productivity, with the last estimated using the stochastic frontier approach. By controlling for …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …