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Wages, Productivity and Aging
Dostie, Benoit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data … also depend on age. Results show concave age-wage and age-productivity profiles. Wage-productivity comparisons show that … the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566442
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Bubble Economics and Structural Change: The Cases of Spain and France Compared
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper delves into the recent events that led to the formation of the housing bubble in Spain and the resulting structural change that is arguably needed to put the economy back into the right track. For this purpose we calibrate a model with different equilibria descriptive of the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250613
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
understanding a number of issues in macro and labor economics, including changes in wage inequality, productivity, life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703753
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
increase in occupational mobility was due to the increase in the variability of productivity shocks to occupations. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761630
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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884218
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and services. The model can rationalize the observed falling or U-shaped pattern … for aggregate hours, the complete marketization of agriculture and manufacturing, and the shift from agriculture to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700867
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
Yang, Dennis; Zhu, Xiaodong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682947
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Growth and Poverty in Africa: Shifting Fortunes and New Perspectives
Shimeles, Abebe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Growth has been high and widespread in the last decade in Africa. Whether this shift in Africa's fortune has impacted poverty has been a subject of controversy. This paper brings into focus recent evidence on the pace of poverty reduction in Africa and addresses whether or not previously held...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106160
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884208
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kozo; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276087