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Employment Protection versus Flexicurity : On Technology Adoption in Unionised Firms

Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune - 2021

We analyse how different labour market institutions - employment protection versus flexicurity - affect technology adoption in unionised firms. We consider both trade unions' incentives to oppose or endorse labour-saving technology, and firms' incentives to invest in such technology. We find...

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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth

Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2021

We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...

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Longevity Shocks with Age-Dependent Productivity Growth

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2015

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile …

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Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-Overs in Firms

Böheim, René - 2015

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …

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Growing Productivity Without Growing Wages : The Micro-Level Anatomy of the Aggregate Labor Share Decline

Kehrig, Matthias - 2017

The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor : Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

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Endogenous Growth, The Distribution of Wealth, and Optimal Policy Under Incomplete Markets and Idiosyncratic Risk

Clemens, Christiane - 2012

This paper combines the standard incomplete markets model of uninsurable idiosyncratic risks and borrowing constraints with the Arrow/Romer approach to endogenous growth to analyze the interaction of risk, growth, and inequality, the latter also endogenously determined in equilibrium. We derive...

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Annuity Market Imperfection, Retirement and Economic Growth

Heijdra, Ben J. - 2009

macroeconomic outcomes of a hump-shaped life-cycle profile in labour productivity, whilst in the second extension we postulate a …

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Migration, Congestion and Growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2017

This article analyzes the effect of migration from a less advanced economy to a more advanced economy on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility, in which congestion diseconomies are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration...

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Growth and Welfare Under Endogenous Lifetime

Schneider, Maik T. - 2017

We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households' savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in...

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