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We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal …
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-income taxpayers) in order to provide consistent series on the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth in Russia from the … in the United States. We also find that inequality has increased substantially more in Russia than in China and other ex …-communist countries in Eastern Europe. We relate this finding to the specific transition strategy followed in Russia. According to our …
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countries, to Russia's earlier history, and to Russia's income distribution today? Careful weighing of an eclectic data set … of European Russia. In 1904, on the eve of military defeat and the 1905 Revolution, Russian income inequality was … States, and Russia itself. We also note how the interplay of some distinctive fiscal and relative-price features of Imperial …
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This paper examines the impact of the movements in the real exchange rate on employment and output in U.S. manufacturing industries. We use a simple model of supply and demand to estimate the elasticity of manufacturing employment and output
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We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self-employment, and a job offer to an industrial firm. Despite significant impacts on occupational choice, income, and health in the first year, after five years we see nearly complete...
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This paper uses a numerical global general equilibrium model to simulate the possible effects of US initiated trade protection measures on US manufacturing employment. The simulation results show that US trade protection measures do not increase but will instead reduce manufacturing employment,...
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Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light on this puzzle, we disaggregate firms in the...
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Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...
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We analyze employment and capital adjustments using plant data from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey. We estimate adjustment functions for capital and labor as a non-linear function of the gaps between desired and actual factor levels, allowing for interdependence in adjustments of the...
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Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately...
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