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labor supply margin to assess the quantitative contribution of productivity and life expectancy in explaining educational … productivity. …
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the low (high) productivity of services in Brazil (South Korea) which is shown to be a function of human capital and very …
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We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …
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We assess the consequences of substantially increasing the marginal tax rate on U.S. top earners using a human capital model. The top of the model Laffer curve occurs at a 53 percent top tax rate. Tax revenues and the tax rate at the top of the Laffer curve are smaller compared to an otherwise...
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"The acceleration of productivity growth during the latter half of the 1990s was both the defining economic event of … between incoming aggregate data, which initially suggested little productivity gain, and anecdotal firm-level evidence which … Chairman, argued that revolutionary increases in productivity were occurring and the Committee should not prematurely forgo …
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"This paper shows that economic fluctuations can be largely demand-driven. In particular, the stylized open-economy business cycle regularities documented by Feldstein and Horioka (1980) and Backus, Kehoe and Kydland (JPE 1992) can be explained by the standard general equilibrium theory if...
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