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This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...
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voluntary compliance and cannot be explained by changes in tax enforcement policies. We also find the productivity response of …
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This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
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firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms? productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …
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face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
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face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
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is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …
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industry productivity and social welfare. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with … heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. We identify two effects of trade liberalization on productivity: a direct effect through … low (high) trade costs; (ii) increases expected industry productivity; and (iii) raises expected social welfare if trade …
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