Housing policy, intended to enable the American Dream of owning one's home, has been ongoing for several decades. Evaluation of its effects is most often at a highly generalized scale; for example, the degree to which minorities nationwide have increased in their rate, or level, of home...

We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these countries. However, we uncover...