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Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...
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Inspired by a recent observation about an online retail company, this paper explains why a firm may find it optimal to offer an exit bonus to recent hires so as to induce self-selection. We study a double adverse selection problem, in which the principal can neither observe agents’ commitment...
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We compare Transparency and Privacy in credit markets. A long-lived borrower, who has a risky investment opportunity …, seeks loans from a sequence of short-lived lenders. Under Transparency, all the information about the past investment … shared under Privacy. We first show that under both Transparency and Privacy, the iterated elimination of dominated …
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Many countries apply lower fines to tax evading individuals when they voluntarily disclose the tax evasion they committed. I model such voluntary disclosure mechanisms theoretically and show that while such mechanisms increase the incentive to evade taxes, they nevertheless increase tax revenues...
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natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … is halved when the across-firm and across-region reallocation mechanisms are at work. Finally, both theory and … but skill-biased on aggregate, skilled immigration can increase absolute and relative skilled wages. Therefore, firm …
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employer-employee data on Danish manufacturing firms, we document a negative elasticity between wages and firm scope, which is … of a similar magnitude but opposite sign as the firm-size wage premium. We rationalize the wage discount using a theory … to offer lower wages. Our findings have important implications for understanding labor market dynamics in times of rising …
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We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in the latter case firms have an informational...
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offering bargain wages rather than posting fixed wages. Contrary to the theoretical predictions provided by the literature, we …
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We study the effect of tenure on earnings instability in Italy using two alternative estimation strategies. First we use a descriptive measure of earnings instability and fixed effects regressions. Second, we develop a formal model of earnings dynamics distinguishing permanent from transitory...
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In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We show that an appropriate choice of the tax schedule enables the government to affect the wage...
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