We provide stylized facts on the existence and dynamics over time of the large firm wage premium for four countries. We examine matched employer-employee micro-data from Brazil, Germany, Sweden, and the UK, and find that the large firm premium exists in all these countries. However, we uncover...

As it transitions to an oil-producing country, Uganda's investments in infrastructure and physical capital will increasingly depend on the ability of the construction sector to respond to surges in demand and transform investment effort into outcomes. Using administrative and survey data, this...

In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying on detailed matched employeremployee data on the universe of public...

We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in sectors most dependent on government...

We conduct representative large-scale surveys of U.S. citizens aimed at measuring perceptions of large corporations' environmental, social, and governance performance and investigate how these perceptions affect the public support for economic policies. The public demands corporations to behave...

Housing policy, intended to enable the American Dream of owning one's home, has been ongoing for several decades. Evaluation of its effects is most often at a highly generalized scale; for example, the degree to which minorities nationwide have increased in their rate, or level, of home...

Flexible Arbeitsmodelle sind im Zuge der Digitalisierung stärker in den Fokus von Personalmanagern/-innen gerückt. Auch die Politik widmet sich dem Thema zunehmend, wie der jüngste Vorstoß zur Einführung eines gesetzlichen Rechts auf Homeoffice zeigt. Allerdings sind die Beschäftigten, die...

Das Arbeiten von zu Hause erlebt angesichts der Corona-Krise einen ungeahnten Schub. Tatsächlich wurde das Potenzial an beruflichen Tätigkeiten, die auch im Homeoffice erledigt werden könnten, schon zuvor keineswegs ausgeschöpft und kann auch gegenwärtig noch nicht voll genutzt werden....

We study how firms adjust the bundles of management practices they adopt over time, using repeated survey data collected in Germany from 2012 to 2018. By employing unsupervised machine learning, we leverage high-dimensional data on human resource policies to describe clusters of management...

We provide a comprehensive analysis of income inequality and income dynamics for Germany over the last two decades. Combining personal income tax and social security data allows us-for the first time-to offer a complete picture of the distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that...