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Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States

Leigh, Andrew - 2022

-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023

times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal … voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered …

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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 …

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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market

Pfeifer, Christian - 2011

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...

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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas

Gibbs, Michael - 2014

We study the effects of a field experiment designed to motivate employee ideas, at a large technology company. Employees were encouraged to submit ideas on process and product improvements via an online system. In the experiment, the company randomized 19 account teams into treatment and control...

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Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2021

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements and modifications made upon the...

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Teacher Pay, Class Size and Local Governments : Evidence from the Latvian Reform

Hazans, Mihails - 2010

This paper employs a rich collection of survey and administrative datasets, including linked school-teacher payroll data, to document the reform of teacher compensation and school network implemented in Latvia amidst the economic crisis of 2008-2010, immediately after territorial reform. We...

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