Does environmental regulation indirectly induce upstream innovation? New evidence from India

P Chakraborty, C Chatterjee - Research Policy, 2017 - Elsevier
Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment, which involves the imposition of a ban by Germany in
1994 on an input ('Azo-dyes') used by the Indian leather and textile industries, we estimate …

Who pays for environmental protection? The impact of green tax reform on labor share in China

X Wei, F Jiang, Y Chen - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
To cope with increasing environmental pollution, the Chinese government has introduced a
nationwide Environmental Protection Tax Law (EPTL) policy, which encourages enterprises …

Is labor's loss capital's gain? Gross versus net labor shares

B Bridgman - Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018 - cambridge.org
US labor share has been falling since the 1970s. I show that it has not fallen as much once
items that do not add to capital, depreciation and production taxes, are netted out. Recent …

Dairy trade liberalization and child stunting: Evidence from low-and middle-income countries

X Liu, Y Liang, KZ Chen - Food Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the well-studied nutritional benefits of dairy for child linear growth, dairy is less
consumed in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) where the prevalence of child …

Do corporate income tax cuts decrease labor share? Regression discontinuity evidence from China

B Li, C Liu, ST Sun - Journal of Development Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen a sustained decline in the labor share around the world. This paper
studies this trend by focusing on the effect of corporate income taxes on firm-level labor …

Trade liberalization, labor market power, and misallocation across firms: Evidence from China's WTO accession

E **e, M Xu, M Yu - Journal of Development Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on the heterogeneity of labor market
power among manufacturing firms, which is a potential source of misallocation. The model …

The impact of China's pilot carbon ETS on the labor income share: Based on an empirical method of combining PSM with staggered DID

D **ao, F Yu, C Guo - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
The carbon emissions trading scheme (ETS), which restricts carbon emission permit
allowances, affects firms' decisions on labor and capital use in production. Taking China's …

Social insurance contributions and labor income share—Evidence from China's Social Insurance Law

Y Cui, J Liang, W Wang - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper analyzes the impact of social insurance contributions on the labor income share
and its mechanisms, based on the exogenous policy shock of the implementation of the …

Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters

S Dobbelaere, K Kiyota - Labour Economics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper examines the links between a firm's internationalization status and the type and
degree of market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for …

Labor market power and the distorting effects of international trade

M Mertens - International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2020 - Elsevier
This article examines how final product trade with China shapes and interacts with labor
market imperfections that create market power in labor markets and prevent an efficient …