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Local Labor Markets
Moretti, Enrico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
the labor market propagate to the rest of the economy through changes in employment, wages and local prices and how this …
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Real Wage Inequality
Moretti, Enrico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly … increase in their nominal wage. To measure the college premium in real terms, I deflate nominal wages using a new CPI that … documented increase in the return to college between 1980 and 2000 disappears when I use real wages. This finding does not appear …
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Offshoring and Unemployment
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economywide rates of unemployment, we construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which labor is mobile across the two sectors, and unemployment is caused by search frictions. We find that, contrary to general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761824
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Evaluating Labor Market Reforms: A General Equilibrium Approach
Alonso-Borrego, César; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Job security provisions are commonly invoked to explain the high and persistent European unemployment rates. This belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how common such contracts have become after deregulation, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762388
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Beware of Workaholics: Household Preferences and Individual Equilibrium Utility
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper analyzes the effects of sociological changes in the form of a shift of influence within two-member households participating in labor and product markets. The most striking effects occur when household members differ in individual preferences and enjoy positive leisure-dependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703771
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies competition, and forces the least efficient … Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822765
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Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities Too Small?
Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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Demography, Capital Flows and Unemployment
Marchiori, Luca; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper contributes to the already vast literature on demography-induced international capital flows by examining the role of labor market imperfections and institutions. We setup a two-country overlapping generations model with search unemployment, which we calibrate on EU15 and US data....
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Mehr und bessere Daten für die Arbeitsmarktforschung: Vorschläge zur effizienten Erschließung der amtlichen Statistik
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Die ökonomische Beurteilung von Vorgängen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erfordert eine solide und aussagekräftige Datengrundlage. Eine Kerngröße zu deren Verständnis bilden Stundenlöhne. Stundenlöhne erklären beispielsweise, ob und in welchem Umfang Menschen arbeiten und konsumieren, warum und...
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …
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