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The aggregate neoclassical growth model - with a labor income tax or "labor market distortion" that began growing at … the end of 2007 as its only impulse - produces time series for aggregate labor usage, consumption, investment, and real …, but merely because labor is falling and labor is complementary with capital in the production function. Through the lens …
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the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …
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Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...
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This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...
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The aim of this paper is to describe the full dimensions of a new and rapidly growing research program that uses new data sources on food consumption, anthropometric measures, genealogies, and life-cycle histories to shed light on secular trends in nutritional status, health, mortality, and the...
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The modern secular decline in mortality in Western Europe did not begin until the 1780s and the first wave of improvement was over by 1840. The elimination of famines and of crisis mortality played only a secondary role during the first wave of the decline and virtually none thereafter....
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composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … the Boatlift, and arises from selecting small subsamples of workers. We also show that conflicting findings on the labor …
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's intrinsic, exogenous, and stochastic earnings ability. It also interacts with both current and future labor supply and there can … be either "learning-and-doing" (when labor and training are complements, like for on-the-job training) or "learning …-or-doing" (when labor and training are substitutes, like for college). Agents' abilities and labor supply are private information to …
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Recent work has demonstrated that existing solutions of the unemployment volatility puzzle are at odds with the …, we introduce human capital acquisition consistent with the evidence on how wages grow with experience in the labor market …. Our model reproduces the observed fluctuations in unemployment because hiring a worker is a risky investment with long …
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excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS … construct counterfactual employment rates and labor force participation rates that assign to mothers of young children the … percent change in employment and labor force participation rates experienced by comparable women without young children. We …
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