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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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Optimal Gradualism
Lehr, Nils H.; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies how gradualism affects the welfare gains from trade, technology, and reforms. When people face adjustment frictions, gradual shocks create less adverse distributional effects in the short run. We show that there are welfare gains from inducing a more gradual transition via...
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The early retirement burden : assessing the costs of the continued prevalence of early retirement in OECD countries
Tryggvi Þor Herbertsson (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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CENTROPE regional development report 2011 : long run growth and demographic challenges ; executive summary/ Karol Frank; Peter Huber. Institute of Economic Research Slovak Academy...
Frank, Karol; Huber, Peter; Römisch, Roman - 2012 - Executive summary
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CENTROPE regional development report 2011 : long run growth and demographic challenges
Frank, Karol; Huber, Peter; Römisch, Roman - 2012
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The impact of growth, labour cost and working time on employment : lessons from the French experience
L'Horty, Yannick (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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A test of the 'Krugman hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets
Kaur, Supreet - 2014
This paper tests for downward nominal wage rigidity by examining transitory shifts in labor demand, generated by rainfall shocks, in 600 Indian districts from 1956-2009. Nominal wages rise in response to positive shocks but do not fall during droughts. In addition, transitory positive shocks...
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Slow to Hire, Quick to Fire : Employment Dynamics with Asymmetric Responses to News
Ilut, Cosmin - 2014
Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
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