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When traditional methods for measuring economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, heights and BMIs are now well accepted measurements that represent biological conditions during economic development. Weight, after controlling for height, is an alternative measure to BMI for current net...
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We study experimentally the protection of property in five widely distinct countries- Austria, Mexico, Mongolia, South …
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Did the 2018/19 US-China trade war trigger adjustment of Global Value Chains (GVCs) and nearshoring to Mexico? We … address this question with confidential longitudinal firm-level trade data from Mexico that covers the universe of … in GVC activities in Mexico with linkages to Asian and US-based GVCs. Our analysis also reveals increased net exports and …
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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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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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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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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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manufacturing. Earnings losses are larger for individuals with low initial wages, low initial tenure, and low attachment to the …
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