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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes : Evidence from Tax Reforms
Rubolino, Enrico - 2017
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
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Immigration Policies and Their Impact : The Case of New Zealand and Australia
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021
The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a …
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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254299
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Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2012
administrative data on schooling and birth records from Chile and Norway, we establish that children who receive extra medical care …
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
In many European countries, wages are determined by collective bargaining agreements intended to improve wages and reduce inequality. We study the local and aggregate effects of collective bargaining in Italy and Germany. The two countries have similar geographical differences in firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870203
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Local Employment Growth in West Germany : A Dynamic Panel Approach
Blien, Uwe; Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, Katja - 2021
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, as well as of the human capital structure of local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318319
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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China
Dammert, Ana - 2013
to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes … labor demand. The results suggest that more exposure to globalization through increased exports is associated with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087424
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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China
Kuhn, Peter - 2019
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...
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Catching Up with the West : Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class
Gustafsson, Björn - 2019
neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870136
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2021
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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