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affecting the quantity and quality of employment on the demand side of the economy; and c) factors affecting processes of … 'unemployment' and 'poverty' traps, geographical mobility of residence and employment pay discrimination, the 'discouraged worker …
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The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using panel data probit regression models, the paper also...
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Several policymakers and economists have proposed the adoption of a carbon tax in the United States. It is widely recognized that such a tax in practice must take the form of a tax on the consumption of energy products such as gasoline. Although a large existing literature examines the...
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Large fluctuations in energy prices have been a distinguishing characteristic of the U.S. economy since the 1970s. Turmoil in the Middle East, rising energy prices in the U.S. and evidence of global warming recently have reignited interest in the link between energy prices and economic...
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the elasticity of innovation, as measured by the number of new chemical entities appearing on the market for a given … additional new chemical entity. An elasticity substantially and significantly below one-half is also a plausible implication of …
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Estimates of the elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign varieties are small in macroeconomic data, and …
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data). Even when these sources of aggregation bias are corrected for, however, the estimates of the elasticity of …In this paper we present empirical evidence of the importance of aggregation bias in Euler equations for consumption …. The main result is that estimates of the elasticity of intertemporal substitution for consumption are consistently lower …
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We show the importance of a dynamic aggregation bias in accounting for the PPP puzzle. We prove that established time …
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This paper presents an empirical examination of the importance of hysteresis in international trade. An econometric model of export determination is developed where the presence of sunk costs causes discontinuous behaviour and hysteresis so that an individual exporter’s decision to stay in or...
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when we can separate the effect on efficiency from the effect on distribution, that is when Gorman aggregation applies, the …
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