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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014254299
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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
Autor, David H. - 2017
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956029
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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
Autor, David H. - 2017
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963787
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The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment : A Comparison between the EU and the US
Castellani, Davide - 2016
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990873
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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive - 2012
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106961
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The Effect of Product Demand on Inequality : Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141699
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038
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Tax Progressivity and Top Incomes : Evidence from Tax Reforms
Rubolino, Enrico - 2017
We study the link between tax progressivity and top income shares. Using variation from large-scale Western tax reforms in the 1980s and 1990s and the novel synthetic control method, we find large and lasting boosting impacts on top income shares from the progressivity reductions. Effects are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959051
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Immigration Policies and Their Impact : The Case of New Zealand and Australia
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021
The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321260
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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930913