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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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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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Trade and Informality in the Presence of Labor Market Frictions and Regulations
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Goldberg, Pinelopi; Meghir, Costas; … - 2021
We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250247
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Household Responses to Trade Shocks
Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor; Levell, Peter; Parey, Matthias - 2023
against lost household earnings by increasing labour supply. We find that both own and partner responses to the shock vary … worker effect' when their partner is exposed to the shock. By contrast, we find no such response for women, who do not … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock …
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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment : Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120837
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Employment and Exchange Rates : The Role of Openness and Technology
Alexandre, Fernando - 2009
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159338
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The Labour Market Effect of Immigration : Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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Made in China, Sold in Norway : Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock
Balsvik, Ragnhild - 2014
We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the labor force altogether. We find no evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050619
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders - 2015
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on value added, factor inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034624
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Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations : Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
Fuentes, Miguel - 2009
In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take advantage of the opportunities brought by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155309