Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

investment. We make the outcomes of 25 empirical studies comparable by computing the tax rate elasticity under a uniform … definition. The mean value of the tax rate elasticity in the literature is around -3.3, i.e. a 1%-point reduction in the host …

This study aims to explain the variation in empirical estimates in the literature on the elasticity of foreign direct … appears to significantly affect the elasticity values. …

. Even at the intensive margin, we find that the elasticity for women exceeds that for men. For men and women in the … Netherlands, we predict an uncompensated labour supply elasticity of 0.1 (or 0.2 if an alternative specification is preferred) and …