productivity match. Because the firm-specific match can vary, wages may increase or decrease over time at each employer. Therefore … our paper relies on our novel approach to identifying the presence of the shock to the match specific productivity. The … asked about their total amount of labor earnings during the previous year. While the first measure records the wages at a …

In this paper, we study the effects of interregional spillovers from the government spending component of the American …. Among pairs of subregions, we find evidence of fiscal policy spillovers. For example, $1 of Recovery Act spending in a large … dynamic equilibrium trade model with interregional commuting capable of propagating these spillovers across regions. …

productivity by increasing the rate at which individuals acquire skills. One largely unexplored implication of this theory is that … productivity through a job search and matching process and, thus, that an important aspect of 'learning' in cities may involve …