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The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced …
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This study tests FDI technology spillover models with the assumption that learning takes time against wage bargaining … models by estimating the wage-premium of a foreign takeover. The technology spillover theory predicts a larger wage growth in … firms taken over by foreign investors than in local firms. However, this wage growth should be confined to high …
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as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be …', technology shocks in contrast triggered wage-price spirals, moving nominal wages and prices in the same direction at longer … magnitudes, can only be explained by assuming a high degree of wage indexation in conjunction with a weak reaction of monetary …
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This paper analyses monthly hours worked in the US over the sample period 1939m1 - 2011m10 using a cyclical long memory model; this is based on Gegenbauer processes and characterised by autocorrelations decaying to zero cyclically and at a hyperbolic rate along with a spectral density that is...
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Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
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We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...
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Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are important to explain recent labour market developments in many...
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that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …, aggravating wage inequality. In essence, we infer: (i) if R&D inputs contributes only to skilled sector, wage inequality increases …
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firms. Under certain conditions, any progressive tax reform induces technical change that compresses the pre-tax wage …
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shifts in the shares of wage and non-wage income going to the top decile of U.S. households since 1980. Under realistic …
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