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In this paper we present a new database that allows deep industry-level growth accounting from 1991-2003. The database allows for the first complete analysis of the German industry performance drivers based on the contributions of 12 asset types in 52 different industries. The industry sources...
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While the US experienced two successive labor productivity surges in 1995 and 2000, Germany's productivity declined dramatically during the same period. We examine the sources of Germany's productivity demise using the ifo industry growth accounting database that provides detailed industry-level...
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share by gradually increasing value added by a factor of three while keeping employment and compensation unchanged …
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, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …
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“behavioral economics,” the findings suggest that non-standard responses may be ephemeral, especially in employment contexts in …
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Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
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In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …
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explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …
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performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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