We use matched firm - worker panel data from France and Norway to consider observationally equivalent alternatives to the hypothesis that firms share product market rents with their workers in the form of higher wages.

The literature on international tax competition has shown how increased international mobility of the tax base may create a downward pressure on tax rates and give rise to increased inequality in disposable income. This paper endogenises the mobility of the tax base, explaining mobility as a...

Anticipation of technological progress may induce potential buyers to delay adoption of a new product. We analyze how buyers' waiting option can alter firms' innovation strategies. It is shown that the firms' choice of innovation strategies relies on the possibility of selling products before...

Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, trade and technology explanations for the change in skill composition are assessed using direct evidence on the job creation and destruction for workers with high, medium and low education level. In order to disentangle the supply and demand...