wages, and the issue of how the existence of task structures, or career ladders, affect wages becomes paramount. Using data … artifact of the data rather than an accurate description of the world. -- wages ; plant size ; occupational hierarchies …

application to the income-consumption relationship, using monthly US time series. Evidence is found to support the claim that the … series ; business cycles ; conditional distribution ; consumption-income relationship ; copula ; multivariate time …

differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in …