Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intrafirm wage inequality and productivity. This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on this subject. We combine German employer-employee-data for the years 1995-2005 with inequality measures using the whole wage distribution of a firm and rely on dynamic panel-data estimators to control for unobserved h...

• We model a two-party dynamic voting with heterogeneous voters. Voters’ preferences endogenously evolve over time and parties are policy motivated. Model’s outcomes include convergence, instability, extreme equilibria. Convergence is achieved when neither party has enough support to pursue its agenda. test whether the original median voter theorem’s result of political convergence in system ho...

The dynamic Nash equilibrium problem with shared constraints (NEPSC) involves a dynamic decision process withmultiple players, where not only the players’ cost functionals but also their admissible control sets depend on the rivals’ decision variables through shared constraints. For a class of the dynamic NEPSC, we propose a differential variational inequality formulation. Using this formulatio...

This paper contribute to understand the microeconomic determinants of household income dynamics that explain the sustained level of inequality in Chile. We use a micro-simulation based decomposition of distributional changes, developed by Bourguignon et.al. (1998). We estimate a model of participation and earning equation for each economic agent. We examine how the income distribution would cha...

Oscillation criteria for impulsive dynamic equations on time scales are obtained via impulsive inequality. An example is given to show that the impulses play a dominant part in the oscillations of dynamic equations on time scales.

Abstract— A generalization of the L2-gain inequality based on nonlinear gains is considered. Using optimization and dynamic programming to characterize lower bounds for the minimal gain function for which this nonlinear L2-gain inequality holds, a technique for computation of nonlinear L2gain bounds is proposed. Some simple illustrative examples are explored.

This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s. While the static decomposition of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race of the household head, as well as geographic locations, can account for a substantial proportion of inequality levels, a dynamic decomposition suggests that changes in inequalit...

The aim of this work is to present an entropy-like Lyapunov function based dynamic feedback design technique for quasi-polynomial and Lotka-Volterra systems. It is shown, that the dynamic feedback design problem is equivalent to the feasibility of a bilinear matrix inequality. The problem is also formulated as a control Lyapunov function based feedback design when the Lyapunov function paramete...