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Military intervention via drone strikes
Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...
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Work-life balance practices, performance-related pay, and gender equality in the workplace : evidence from Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2015
This paper uses unique firm-level panel data from Japan and provides new evidence on the possible impact on gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346576
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Does financial deregulation boost top incomes? : evidence from the Big Bang
Tanndal, Julia; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016
constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to top earners by over 20 percent in the U.K. and over 10 percent in Japan. The … in Japan. The findings are robust to placebo tests, alternative ways to construct synthetic controls and scrutiny of post …
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The gender wage gap in four countries
Daly, Anne E.; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006
comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253459
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Unequal consequences of COVID-19 across age and income: representative evidence from six countries
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020
been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239013
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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023
, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
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The effects of in-work benefit reform in Britain on couples : theory and evidence
Francesconi, Marco (contributor); Rainer, Helmut (contributor) - 2007
This paper examines the effects of the Working Families' Tax Credit (WFTC) on couples in Britain. We develop a simple model of household decisions which explicitly accounts for the role played by the tax and benefit system. Its main implications are then tested using panel data from the British...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635400
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Assessing the importance of male and female part-time work for the gender earnings gap in Britain
Mumford, Karen (contributor); Smith, Peter N. (contributor) - 2007
This study examines the role of individual characteristics, occupation, industry, region, and workplace characteristics in accounting for differences in hourly earnings between men and women in full and part-time jobs in Britain. A four-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637265
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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U" profile?
Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637282