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Shareholders and wage determination
Ogorevc, Marko; Šlander, Sonja - 2010
Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...
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Labor productivity growth in EU28 : spatial panel analysis
Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015
spatial panel model with fixed effects. The model presented provides evidence of the importance of increasing returns to scale …
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Heterogeneity in regional consumption due to current income shocks : testing the permanent income hypothesis for German panel data
Mitze, Timo - 2010 - First incomplete version: February 2010
of a dynamic panel data model for German states between 1970 and 2006. Our preferred specification relates changes in …-run perspective in a co-integration model. Here we specify a Panel-ECM and look at its short run adjustment to judge about the share … smoothening characteristics of income transfers to the East. As a robustness check we also apply the Panel-ECM with spatially …
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A Bayesian space-time approach to identifying and interpreting regional convergence clubs in Europe
Fischer, Manfred M.; Lesage, James P. - 2013
-time dynamic panel relationship between growth rates and initial levels of income as well as endowments of physical, knowledge and … step uses the club assignments in a dynamic space-time panel data model to assess long-run dynamic direct and spillover …
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Social networks, promotions, and the glass-ceiling effect
Neugart, Michael; Zaharievay, Anna - 2020
Empirical studies show that women are under-represented in highly paid top management positions of firms (glass-ceiling effect) which could be a cause of the gender wage gap. In order to study women's career paths, we develop a search and matching model where job ladders consist of three...
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Multifactor consumption based asset pricing models using the US stock market as a reference : evidence from a panel of developed economies
Hunter, John; Wu, Feng - In: Economic modelling 36 (2014), pp. 557-565
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Space-time dynamics of fertility and commuting
Kotyrlo, Elena S. - 2014
The study contributes in analytical description of spatial diffusion of fertility, in particular, influenced by labour movements of people between places of residence and work. It is assumed that the labour market has externality on the marriage market due to commuting, which, in turn, affects...
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Spatial mobility and wage profiles : the role of general and location specific human capital matching
Morkutė, Gintarė - 2016
While there is a wealth of literature dealing with the spatial nature of knowledge and its transferral, I argue that the underlying mechanisms have not been sufficiently understood. Existing research relating the geography of inflows to firm productivity does not adequately address firm and...
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Redistributive income taxation with directed technical change
Loebbing, Jonas - 2020
This paper studies the implications of (endogenously) directed technical change for the design of non-linear labor income taxes in a Mirrleesian economy augmented to include endogenous technology development and adoption choices by firms. First, I identify conditions under which any progressive...
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Diverging paths : labor reallocation, sorting, and wage inequality
Winkler, Erwin - 2020
This paper provides evidence that labor reallocation from the manufacturing into the non-manufacturing sector causes an increase in sorting of high-skilled (low-skilled) workers into high-paying (low-paying) firms and thereby triggers a rise in wage inequality. I use data on 50% of all West...
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