This paper contributes to the ongoing discourse on the taxation of top-income earners by empirically investigating the impact of tax policy changes on pay without performance. Using data on executive…
We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to explore how high school peers’ grit, a personality trait characterized by perseverance and passion, influences long-term outcomes…
We construct a novel dataset of human capital accumulation in China and India from 1900 to 2020 by combining historical records and educational reports to analyze the role of education in economic divergence.…
Towards the end of 2023, the German Federal Government introduced the Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefits) into the legislative process. This short article addresses some economic aspects of the reform.…
The present research report estimates the fiscal effects that resulted from increasing the minimum wage to a level of 12 euros per hour in 2022, and the potential fiscal effects from increasing the minimum wage…