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Multitasking and wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2018
A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns …
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Exporting and offshoring with monopsonistic competition
Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo; Moser, Christoph; … - 2019
skilled labour for headquarter tasks and unskilled workers to conduct a continuum of production tasks. Firms can enter foreign … and the offshoring of tasks. At the firm-level, exporting leads to higher wages and employment, while offshoring of … production tasks reduces the wages paid to unskilled workers as well as their domestic employment. At the aggregate level, trade …
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Incorporation and taxation : theory and firm-level evidence
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian; Winner, Hannes - 2009
This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate...
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Taxes, incorporation, and productivity
Barro, Robert J.; Wheaton, Brian - 2019
U.S. businesses can choose to be C-corporations or pass-through entities in the forms of S-corporations, partnerships (notably LLCs), and sole proprietorships. C-corporate status conveys benefits from perpetual legal identity, limited liability, potential for public trading of shares, and...
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Incorporation and productivity
Barro, Robert J.; Wheaton, Brian - 2019
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Hospital competition with soft budgets
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2013
We study the incentives for hospitals to provide quality and expend cost-reducing effort when their budgets are soft, i.e., the payer may cover deficits or confiscate surpluses. The basic set up is a Hotelling model with two hospitals that differ in location and face demand uncertainty, where...
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Complexity, efficiency, and fairness of multi-product monopoly pricing
Miravete, Eugenio J.; Seim, Katja; Thurk, Jeff - 2014
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits and is mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to assess the implications...
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Privatisation and public ownership in Finland
Willner, Johan - 2003
Finland s state-enterprise sector has been larger than in most countries and included several manufacturing companies. These were usually established because of a scarcity of private venture capital, with a mission to contribute to industrialisation. Some companies have now been privatised in a...
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