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The capital-to-labor ratio has steadily risen in the U.S. and elsewhere during the post-WWII period. Since the 1970s this rise has been accompanied by a rise in the level and variability of corporate profits whereas the labor share of income has declined. In this paper we ask whether these...
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This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
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Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria removed 14.4 percent of recipients from the program and...
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We examine the effect of job displacement on regional mobility using linked employer-employee panel data for the 1995-2014 period. We also study whether displaced movers obtain earnings and employment gains compared to displaced stayers. The results show that job displacement increases the...
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We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find that an increase of the local supply of low skilled immigrants by one thousand units – which corresponds to 8.5 percent of the mean value - raises profits on average by somewhat...
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Despite the "1/N problem" associated with profit sharing, the empirical literature finds that sharing profits with … observing that, although the incentive to work harder under profit sharing is weak, it might be sufficient to motivate workers … for this conjecture and we discuss the results of an experiment that confirms that profit sharing is most effective when …
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this firm, increasing in importance when the workers' outside alternatives deteriorate. Profit-maximizing gifts would …
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focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not … subsidiary increases the probability of focusing on short-term profit. These findings conform to the hypothesis that foreign … short-term profit. However, we do not identify differences in "short-termism" between investors from "Anglo-Saxon" and other …
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different firms and firms employing cooperative workers make strictly positive profits. Profit differences across firms persist …
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), although this difference is very small. However, they generate the same amount of profit per unit of revenue as men. We find …
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