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Give me your wired and your highly skilled : measuring the impact of immigration policy on employers and shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2011
quantitative impact of immigrants on employer profit, and which employers are most likely to gain (suffer) increased (reduced … employers and shareholders, particularly in those industries with high needs for skilled immigrants. The American …. -- skilled immigrants ; immigration policy ; employers ; shareholders ; event study ; H-1B visa …
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Income Inequality and Asset Prices Under Redistributive Taxation
Pastor, Lubos - 2017
Our simple model features agents heterogeneous in skill and risk aversion, incomplete financial markets, and redistributive taxation. In equilibrium, agents become entrepreneurs if their skill is sufficiently high or risk aversion sufficiently low. Under heavier taxation, entrepreneurs are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970829
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Stock of Indian S&T Manpower
Saxena, Deepak; Banerjee, P. - 2009
S&T manpower act as the most important ingredient for scientific and technological activities. It is also an indicator of technological competitiveness of a country, which is most important in the 21st century. The manpower outturn and stock is also an important input while designing science...
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Distracted by the Stock Market : Stock Market Overnight Returns and Worker Productivity
Cai, Xiqian; Li, Dongxu - 2023
Combining the daily productivity records of individual manufacturing workers with stock market data, we find that worker productivity is negatively associated with market overnight returns. This effect is instantaneous, and the economic loss is quantitatively important. Mechanism analysis...
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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled : Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders
Lin, Carl - 2013
quantitative impact of immigrants on employer profit, and which employers are most likely to gain (suffer) increased (reduced … employers and shareholders, particularly in those industries with high needs for skilled immigrants. The American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092819
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The market and the estimators : forecasting the cost of Medicare catastrophic coverage
Glied, Sherry; Brooks, Tama - 1997
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The Fragility of Organization Capital
Boguth, Oliver - 2018
Firms with high levels of organization capital, a firm-specific production factor provided by key employees, are known to be risky and earn high stock returns. We argue that fragility of organization capital -- its sensitivity to potential disruptions -- is an independently important determinant...
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Minimum Wage and Shareholder Wealth : Evidence from Hong Kong
Wong, Kin Ming - 2015
This paper examines the impact of the minimum wage legislation on firms' performance through the abnormal returns of share prices. Abnormal returns are estimated for events throughout the legislation in Hong Kong. Evidences show that the anticipated impact of the minimum wage on firms'...
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Excess Corporate Profits : A Bubble, or the New Publicani?
Waelbroeck, Henri - 2015
Net corporate profits have persisted at historical highs for almost 10 years. Such levels exceed what can be profitably re-invested, as evidenced by aggregate dividend payouts and buybacks nearing 6% of GDP. We argue that at such levels corporate profits operate effectively as a tax on the...
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