자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016931739

International Standard Book Number  

9798380382199

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

658

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Vergara, Damian.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of California, Berkeley., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(168 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Yagan, Danny.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2023.

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Summary, Etc.  

요약This dissertation studies different policies that affect labor markets and inequality. The first chapter studies whether minimum wages should be used for redistribution on top of taxes and transfers. Theoretical results show that a minimum wage can increase social welfare when it increases the average post-tax wages of low-skill labor market participants and when corporate profit incidence is large. When chosen together with taxes, the minimum wage can help the government redistribute efficiently to low-skill workers by preventing firms from capturing low-wage income subsidies and from enjoying high profits that cannot be redistributed via corporate taxes due to capital mobility. Empirically, the analysis shows that the average US state-level minimum wage reform over the last two decades increased average post-tax wages of low-skilled labor market participants and reduced corporate profits in affected industries, namely low-skill labor-intensive services. The second chapter, written jointly with Maximiliano Lauletta, empirically studies a reform to the workers' compensation system in Argentina that, after a workplace accident, mandated workers to go through a government medical commission that determines the degree of disability, whether the injury happened in the workplace, and the corresponding compensation, before additional legal actions can be taken. Leveraging the staggered implementation of the reform across provinces, the results show that the reform substantially reduced workplace lawsuits with no effects on reported accidents. Employment increased by more than 5% one year after the reform in highly exposed industries, with no effects on average earnings or the number of active firms. Finally, the third chapter empirically asks if policies and institutions matter for pre-tax income inequality. Based on an annual panel of 43 countries for the period 1980-2016, the analysis documents robust correlations between pre-tax income shares and economic policy-financial development, trade openness, government expenditure, and income taxation-even after controlling for economic development. I further find that proxies of institutional quality-e.g., state development, corruption, or political exclusion-mediate the relationship between top income shares and economic policy, in particular for trade openness and government expenditure.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Finance.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Public policy.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Inequality

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Labor markets

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Capital mobility

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Workplace lawsuits

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Economic development

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University of California, Berkeley Economics

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03A.

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Dissertation Abstract International

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