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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
with an increase in the share of the top percentile group. Likewise, a fall in the marginal tax rate on investment income …
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Accounting for China's growth
Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010
role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …
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Public support for innovation, intangible investment and productivity growth in the UK market sector
Haskel, Jonathan; Wallis, Gavin - 2010
of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …
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The public pay gap in Britain: small differences that (don't?) matter
Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - 2005
The existing literature on inequality between private and public sectors focuses on cross-section differences in earnings levels. A more general way of looking at inequality between sectors is to recognize that forward-looking agents will care about income and job mobility too. We show that...
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Total reward in the UK in the public and private sectors
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dolton, Peter J. - 2011
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and other 'benefits in kind', evaluate it as the present value of the sum of all these payments over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278521
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Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment : A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands
Polder, Michael; Verick, Sher - 2004
market is characterised by greater flexibility in wages and work arrangements in comparison to Germany. These institutional … dynamics as investment conditions are similar. Our results are consistent with this hypothesis. Furthermore, there is no …
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? Evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
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The causal effects of an industrial policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; Van … - 2012
positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282152
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The SES health gradient on both sides of the Atlantic
Banks, James; Marmot, Michael; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, … - 2007
Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy are in much worse health than those at the top. This...
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Contingent convergence: a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner; Konle-Seidl, Regina - 2008
The trend towards activation has been one of the major issues in recent welfare and labour market reforms in Europe and the US. Despite considerable initial variation across national models with respect to the scope and intensity of activation, redefining the link between social protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269141