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Fertility decline, baby boom and economic growth

Murphy, Kevin M; Simon, Curtis; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

We present new data documenting the secular decline in fertility in the states of the United States, the dramatic convergence in fertility, child schooling, parental schooling, survival probabilities. In addition we document the disparate nature of the Baby Boom in the United States. There were...

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Does high involvement management lead to higher pay?

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However …, employees with better wage and work histories are more likely to enter HIM jobs. The wage premium falls substantially having …

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Black and White Fertility, Differential Baby Booms: The Value of Civil Rights

Tamura, Robert; Simon, Curtis; Murphy, Kevin M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new estimates of the benets of equal education opportunity for blacks over the period 1820-2000. For the better part of US history, blacks have enjoyed less access to schooling for their children than whites. This paper attempts to quantify the value of this discrimination....

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Economic growth In the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P.; Devereux, John; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

We present new data on real output per worker, schooling per worker, human capital per worker, real physical capital per worker for 168 countries. The output data represent all available data from Maddison. The physical capital data represent all available data from Mitchell. One major...

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Equilibrium and Optimal Fertility with Increasing Returns to Population and Endogenous Fertility

Cuberes, David; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We present a general equilibrium dynamic model that characterizes the gap between optimal and equilibrium fertility and investment in human capital. In the model, the aggregate production function exhibits increasing returns to population arising from specialization but households face the...

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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes

Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of … ICT does not affect the probability of an employee becoming unemployed, it has a positive impact on the wage growth of …

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Data appendix for economic growth in the long run

Tamura, Robert; Dwyer, Gerald P; Devereux, John; Baier, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This extended data appendix describes the sources and methods used to construct the data used in our paper "Economic Growth in the Long Run."

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White discrimination in provision of black education: plantations and towns

Canaday, Neil; Tamura, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We present a model of public provision of education for blacks in two discriminatory regimes, white plantation controlled, and white town controlled. We show that the ability to migrate to a non-discriminating district constrains the ability of both types of whites to discriminate. The model...

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Enemy of Labour? Analysing the Employment Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions

Lehto, Eero; Böckerman, Petri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper analyses the employment effects of mergers and acquisitions by using matched establishment-level data from … Finland over the period of 1989-2003. The data covers all sectors. We compare the employment effects of cross-border M&As with …-border M&As lead to downsizing in manufacturing employment. The effects of cross-border M&As on employment in non …

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Minimum wages and youth employment: Evidence from the Finnish retail trade sector

Böckerman, Petri; Uusitalo, Roope - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

the existing minimum wage for young workers between 1993 and 1995. We examine the effects of these minimum wage exceptions … by comparing the changes in wages and employment of the groups whose minimum wages were reduced with simultaneous changes … among slightly older workers for whom the minimum wage regulation was still binding. Our analysis is based on the payroll …

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