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Flawed research can be harmful both within and outside of academia. Even when published research has been retracted and refuted by the scientific community, it may continue to be a source of misinformation. The media can play an important role in drawing broader attention to research, but may...
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constitution as a proxy for the norm that "women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value". We find that …Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens' approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss …
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How much does your neighbor impact your test scores and career? In this paper, we examine how an observable …
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relation between two key factors of long-term economic growth - science and culture. Considering the evolution of these two …
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household incomes in the current state with simulated in-work/out-of-work counterfactuals. In particular we compare how the …
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We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average female manager will then be better at mitigating more intense …
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An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging affects the relative scarcity of factors of...
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...
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This paper outlines the methodology used by the OECD in its Taxing Wages publication, compares this approach to other measures of the effective tax rate on labour and uses recent results to illustrate its use. It argues that the strength of this methodology lies in its ability to make...
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The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor features prominently in several areas of economic research. However, a consensus estimate remains elusive. We develop an estimation strategy that filters panel data in an original way and avoids several pitfalls - difficult-to-specify...
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