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We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...
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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …
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We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us — for the first time — to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find...
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Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage …, particularly among service firms where the wage premium is approximately 2%. Furthermore, this average effect masks significant … within-firm heterogeneity with high-skill occupations – and managers in particular – earning higher shifting wage premiums …
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