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example, the magnitude of property, employment and sales explains less than 22 percent of the variation in profits between … Base in Europe, would apportion a firm's worldwide profits using formulas based on the location of employment, capital or … sales. This paper offers a new method of evaluating the accuracy of these apportionment rules and the ownership distortions …
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This paper surveys recent research on the labor force in the nineteenth century. I examine trends in the aggregate size …
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workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and … to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status …
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The level of diseconomies of scale in asset management has important implications for tests of manager skill and the expected level of performance persistence. To identify the causal impact of fund size on future returns, we exploit the fact that small differences in returns can cause discrete...
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increase sales probabilities or reduce the time it takes for properties to sell, decreases the market share of experienced …
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Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic … business owners and applied only to unincorporated firms, leaving corporations out. We use a difference-in-differences strategy …
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economics. The international macro literature, which is primarily concerned with short-run business cycle fluctuations, assigns …
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A frequently debated question is whether the use of intellectual property (IP) protection benefits the residents of low and middle income countries. We contribute to this debate with an analysis of the use of patents and trademarks by firms in Chile over the decade 1995-2005 as the then...
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The Melitz model highlights the importance of the extensive margin (the number of firms exporting) for trade flows. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around 50% of variation in exports is along the extensive...
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This paper uses data from NBER surveys of over 40,000 employees in hundreds of facilities in 14 firms and from … employees on the 2002 and 2006 General Social Surveys to explore how shared compensation affects turnover, absenteeism, loyalty …
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