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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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One Cohort at a Time : A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap

Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Bianchi, Nicola; Lattanzio, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor …

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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...

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Revisiting Productivity Dynamics in Europe : A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth

Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in five European countries and in the United States. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...

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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …

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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity …

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Countries for Old Men : An Analysis of the Age Pay Gap

Bianchi, Nicola; Paradisi, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....

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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … the provincial mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy … (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements …

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Widows' Time, Time Stress and Happiness : Adjusting to Loss

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Myck, Michał; Oczkowska, Monika - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...

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Further Evidence on the Global Decline in the Mental Health of the Young

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Lepinteur, Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program … more time daily in front of a screen on the internet or their smartphone, and that within-person increases in poor mental … mental health, and because the results caution against simply using the presence of the internet in the household, or low …

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