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This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...
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-level wages and enjoy greater job security although these advantages disappear over time. …
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In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...
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Multinomial Choice framework. Our estimates confirm a number of conventional results such as positive effects of wages and …
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manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …
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taxes on bank wages. As the corporate tax may be borne by labor, a natural question to ask is whether the economic incidence … regulatory incidence by estimating the degree to which banking regulations and company taxes on banks influence wages in the … banking sector. We use individual data on wages combined with data from US states on the states' tax rates and timing of …
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firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are …
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This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay, and as well surveys the literature on the effects of these policies. Disclosure has increased nearly uniformly since 1933. A number of other regulations, including special taxes...
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We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of …
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This paper employs a novel dataset on government wages to investigate the relationship between government remuneration … government wages as used in previous research. When the relationship between government wages and corruption is modeled to vary … with the level of income, we find that the impact of government wages on corruption is strong at relatively low …
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