Alan Krueger, a former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the
music industry, from superstar artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a …

Standard analysis of corporate income taxation assumes shareholders bear the burden of
taxes on rents. But recent research finds that firms share rents with workers, implying that …

This paper provides new theory and evidence on the importance of firm and worker
heterogeneity for aggregate wage inequality and welfare. Using German micro-data, I show …

This paper examines the effects of a labor reform in Chile that increased the cost of using
temporary agency workers (TAW). Using a dynamic industry equilibrium model and a unique …

We present causal evidence on the rent-sharing elasticity of German manufacturing firms.
We develop a new firm-level Bartik instrument for firm rents that combines the firms' …

The first chapter examines the impacts of stringent size requirements to qualify for R&D tax
credits on firms' growth decisions. I leverage a 2004 eligibility change in Canada's largest …

Through a microeconomic wage posting model, we measured rent sharing in the
Portuguese labor market between 2010 and 2021. Moreover, showed the short-term …

This dissertation consists of four essays on labor economics with a particular focus on the
causes and consequences of major life cycle choices such as marriage, occupational …