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Regional economy and manufacturing update

Dudley, William - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.

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Workforce skills across the urban-rural hierarchy

Abel, Jaison R.; Gabe, Todd M.; Stolarick, Kevin - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2012

This paper examines differences in the skill content of work throughout the United States, ranging from densely populated city centers to isolated and sparsely populated rural areas. To do so, we classify detailed geographic areas into categories along the entire urban-rural hierarchy. An...

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Human capital, unemployment, and relative wages in a global economy

Davis, Donald R.; Reeve, Trevor A. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

This paper develops a simple framework for examining human capital accumulation, unemployment, and relative wages in a …

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International comparisons of labor costs in manufacturing

Hooper, Peter; Larin, Kathryn A. - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1988

This paper presents a comparative study of the level of unit labor costs in the manufacturing sectors of several countries. The paper begins by surveying earlier estimates of relative productivity and unit labor cost levels and evaluating the various methodologies that have been used in previous...

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Employment versus wage adjustment and the U.S. dollar

Campa, Jose Manuel; Goldberg, Linda S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1998

Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The …

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Explaining the growing gap between low-skilled and high-skilled wages

Brauer, D.; Hickok, S. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 1994

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Do firms share their success with workers? The response of wages to product market conditions

Estevao, Marcello; Tevlin, Stacey - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2000

.S. manufacturing sector. Ordinary least squares estimates of the effect of rents per worker on wages are positive and significant, but … industry financial situation on wages. We do this using the U.S. input-output tables to isolate exogenous variation in an …

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Evidence on nominal wage rigidity from a panel of U.S. manufacturing industries

Ghosal, Vivek; Loungani, Prakash - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1995

Using annual data for 450 manufacturing industries over the period 1958 to 1989, we establish the following stylized facts on the response of industry nominal wage growth to aggregate and industry influences: ; 1. We find support for the canonical wage contracts model outlined in Blanchard and...

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