constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations in the United Kingdom in 1986 and Japan 1997 …-1999 increased the share of pre-tax incomes going to top earners by over 20 percent in the U.K. and over 10 percent in Japan. The … in Japan. The findings are robust to placebo tests, alternative ways to construct synthetic controls and scrutiny of post …

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …

management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how …

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …

France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to … France. Relative poverty and, notably, child poverty, have increased in Germany due to policy responses combined with the …