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French CEO Compensations : What is the Cost of a Mandatory Upper Limit?

Llense, Fabienne - 2008

In the mid-nineties, the sharp increase in globalisation and the last privatisation wave promoted the shaping of a market for executives in France. Characteristics of this market are estimated for France and a competitive model is simulated in order to assess to what extent such a model could...

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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2013

Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country’s residents, and, by … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by … examining the impact of emigration on income distribution in the source country. …

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Growth, Trade, and Inequality

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ in ability sort into either a research sector or a manufacturing sector that produces differentiated goods. Each research project generates a new variety of the differentiated...

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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades: A Tale of Two Countries

Fuchs-Schuendeln, Nicola; Krueger, Dirk; Sommer, Mathias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our...

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form...

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The Rate of Return to Corporate Capital and Factor Shares: New EstimatesUsing Revised National Income Accounts and Capital Stock Data

Poterba, James - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

This paper presents new evidence on the rate of return on tangible assets in the United" States, incorporating the recently-revised national accounts as well as new estimates of the" replacement cost of the reproducible physical capital stock. The pretax return on capital in the" nonfinancial...

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The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper examines the family income -- college enrollment relationship and the evidence on credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints from the long-term factors that promote cognitive and noncognitive ability. Long-run factors crystallized in...

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The Corporate Profit Base, Tax Sheltering Activity, and the Changing Nature of Employee Compensation

Desai, Mihir A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper examines the evolution of the corporate profit base and the relationship between book income and tax income for U.S. corporations over last two decades. The paper demonstrates that this relationship has broken down over the 1990s and has broken down in a manner that is consistent with...

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Policies to Foster Human Capital

Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999

This paper considers the sources of skill formation in a modern economy and emphasizes the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills in producing economic and social success and the importance of both formal academic institutions and families and firms as sources of learning. Skill...

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Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies

Carneiro, Pedro; Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

determine which persons are affected by a given policy, where they come from in the ex-ante outcome distribution and what their …

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