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wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …
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prices and total factor productivity (TFP) with the aim of highlighting data patterns that are useful for evaluating business … run movements in total factor productivity and (ii) such stock prices innovations do not affect U.S. sectoral TFPs …
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our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …
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We study how international trade affects manufacturing employment and the relative wage of unskilled workers when goods and services are traded with different intensities. Manufacturing trade reduces manufacturing prices worldwide, which reduces manufacturing employment if manufactures and...
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This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of black-white earnings differences among all men at different points in the distribution. We study two dimensions of earnings gaps: the black-white difference in earnings; and the difference between a black man's position in the black earnings...
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, we examine how the productivity of these firms is influenced by their internal wage dispersion. To do so, we use a large … dispersion has a positive and significant effect on firm productivity. This result is robust to controls for individual and firm …
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by a shock that does not affect productivity in the short run -- and therefore does not look like a standard technology … shock -- but affects productivity with substantial delay -- and therefore does not look like a monetary shock. One … precede productivity growth by a few years. Moreover, we show that this shock explains about 50\% of business cycle …
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productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … that both the wage and productivity profiles are rising but concave to the origin (consistent with profiles quadratic in … age), but the estimated relative wage profile is steeper than the relative productivity profile, consistent with models of …
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marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. Under certain conditions, the wage premiums … for worker characteristics should equal the productivity benefits associated with them. I find that equality holds …). Differences between wage and productivity premiums are most pronounced for characteristics that are clearly related to human …
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bubbles tend to appear and expand in countries where productivity is low relative to the rest of the world. These bubbles … productivity countries. Through this channel, bubbles act as substitute for international capital flows, improving the …
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