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Estimating Long-Run Incarceration Rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States

Leigh, Andrew - 2022

-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …

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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century

Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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Emigrant Voyages from the UK to North America and Australasia, 1853-1913

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2023

times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the United States and to Australia. Between 1853-7 and 1909-13 the voyage time … times are explained with a focus on the relative efficiency of sail and steam and (for Australia) the use of the Suez Canal … voyages. Econometric analysis of UK emigration to the US, Canada and Australia supports the view that time costs mattered …

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Urban Resilience and Social Security Uptake : New Zealand Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cochrane, William; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2022

This paper focuses on the spatial variation in the uptake of social security benefits following a large and detrimental exogenous shock. Specifically, we focus on the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We construct a two-period panel of 66 Territorial...

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Migration and Firm-Level Productivity

Fabling, Richard; Maré, David C.; Stevens, Philip - 2022

We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity, wages and workforce composition. Jointly estimating production functions and firm- level wage bill equations, we compare migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens...

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Who Benefits from Firm Success? Heterogenous Rent Sharing in New Zealand

Allan, Corey; Maré, David C. - 2022

We examine heterogeneous rent-sharing in New Zealand using LEED data. Using a refined measures of quasi-rents per worker, we find that 20% to 30% of workers are in zero-excess-rent firms - disproportionately women, Māori or Pacific peoples, low-qualified workers, and those in hospitality, admin...

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Worker Representation

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022

We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers

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