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Wages, Experience and Seniority
Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper develops and estimates a human capital model of wage growth based on learning by doing. Learning by doing rates are assumed to be heterogeneous and firms offer different career structures in terms of the rate of acquisition of firm specific human capital. The model is estimated using...
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Matching, Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Income Distribution
Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
This paper presents a model in which firms and workers must engage in costly search to find a production partner. In this setting the skill, job and wage distributions and their evolutions are endogenized. The presence of search frictions implies that there are two redistributive forces in the...
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Revisiting U. S. productivity Growth over the Past Century with a View of the Future
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper provides three perspectives on long-run growth rates of labor productivity (LP) and of multi …-factor productivity (MFP) for the U. S. economy. It extracts statistical growth trends for labor productivity from quarterly data for the …
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Productivity Differences
Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and lead to low productivity in the LDCs. Even when all countries … productivity and output per worker. We provide evidence in favour of the cross-industry productivity patterns predicted by our …
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Heterogeneous Workers and International Trade
Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
productivity and efficiency via its impact on sorting and matching in the labor market. Some of the most recent contributions also …
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Matching and Sorting in a Global Economy
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan; Kircher, Philipp - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
diminishing returns to the number of workers. We examine the sorting of factors to sectors and the matching of factors within …
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Are the Unemployed Unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
This paper develops a matching model of the labour market under wage rigidity when hiring decisions are irreversible … increase in the productivity and/or the supply of skilled relative to unskilled workers. These effects are stronger when hiring …
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labour Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogenous Production Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this Paper we analyse a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
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Human Capital and Productivity in Manufacturing during the Twentieth Century: Britain, Germany and the United States
Broadberry, Stephen N; Wagner, Karin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
overall production strategy and productivity trends. In the United States a strategy of standardized mass production led to … high levels of labour productivity and concentration on the development of managerial capabilities, but neglect of the …
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Economic Growth and the Swedish Model
Henrekson, Magnus; Jonung, Lars; Stymne, Joakim - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
productivity catch-up is rejected. A number of potential `ultimate' causes behind the slowdown are explored. An increasingly …
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