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This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from … normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes are driven equally by hours and wages which is consistent with …, there is no evidence of an added-worker effect but government insurance and income pooling can mitigate the pass-through of …
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Trade unions are often argued to cause allocative inefficiencies and to lower welfare. We analyze whether this evaluation is also justified in a Cournot-oligopoly with free but costly entry. If input markets are competitive and output per firm declines with the number of firms (business...
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We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
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Using matched employer-employee-contract data for Portugal – a country with near-universal union coverage – we find evidence of a sizable effect of union affiliation on wages. Gelbach's (2016) decomposition procedure is next deployed to ascertain the contributions of worker, firm, match, and...
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We combine exogenous variation in union membership with detailed administrative data and a novel field survey to estimate the career effects of labor union membership. In the survey, we show how workers perceive the role of unions in setting wages and determining work amenities. In the...
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This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace co-determination through works councils shape labour market imperfections and how labour market imperfections matter for employer wage premia. Based on representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document...
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that the choices of the proposers and the responders are consistent with social identity theory (higher offers and lower … proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …
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theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries …
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We study the optimal tax system when taxpayers earn different kinds of income by supplying different inputs. Imperfect … such as income-shifting. Formalizing the tax schedule as the sum of many one-dimensional schedules, we express optimal … marginal tax rate on any kind of income in terms of sufficient statistics, including new ones for cross-base responses and …
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly impact the income of individuals. Cross-country data …
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