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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?

Duncan, Denvil - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...

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Global Reform of Personal Income Taxation, 1981-2005 : Evidence from 189 Countries

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009

In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using complete national income tax schedules, we calculate actual average and marginal tax rates at...

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Income Tax Flattening : Does it Help to Reduce the Shadow Economy?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...

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Public Sector Pay and Corruption : Measuring Bribery from Micro Data

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2006

This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework and the estimated sectoral gap in reported earnings and expenditures to identify the size of...

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Filling the Gap : The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Poege, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...

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