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inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages …. CEOs particularly gain, with their wages rising nearly 10%. These results thus suggest that profit shifting by …-of-the-envelope calculations suggest these higher wages would generate additional income tax revenues which would offset around 3% of the fall in …
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U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...
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The skill premium has increased significantly in the United States in the last five decades. During the same period, individual wage risk has also increased. This paper proposes a mechanism through which a rise in wage risk increases the skill premium. Intuitively, a rise in uninsured wage risk...
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differential. We show that immoral work is associated withhigher wages, both using correlational evidence from administrative labor …
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. Our evidence suggests that employers capture about 6-14 percent of the transfers through lower wages when they mediate the …
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effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers’ wages (possibly in the …
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acquisition, with important implications for the assessment of immigrants’ career paths and the estimation of their earnings … profiles. Our study also explains the willingness of immigrants to accept jobs at wages that seem unacceptable to natives …
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anything, see their wages fall in the meantime. Furthermore, the inequality-deepening impact of firm entry into tax havens is …
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This paper investigates the relationship between immigration and inequality in the UK over the past forty years. This is a period when the share of foreign-born in the UK population increased from 5.3% in 1975 to 13.4% in 2015. We evaluate the impact immigration had on wage inequality in the UK...
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This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...
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