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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries

Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023

manufacturing employment in the year of its country's manufacturing peak and the subsequent change in total employment, reflecting … the fact that cities where manufacturing was initially more important experienced larger negative labor demand shocks. But … manufacturing jobs. Overall, 34% of former manufacturing hubs-defined as cities with an initial manufacturing employment share in …

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Multitasking and wages

Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013

This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...

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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth

Falck, Oliver (contributor) - 2007

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Firms' optimism and pessimism

Bachmann, Ruediger; Elstner, Steffen - 2013

West German manufacturing subset of the IFO Business Climate Survey to infer quarterly production changes at the firm level …

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Great moderation at the firm level? : unconditional vs. conditional Output volatility

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Döpke, Jörg (contributor); … - 2008

Aggregated output in industrialized countries has become less volatile over the past decades. Whether this Great Moderationʺ can be found in firm level data as well remains disputed. We study the evolution of firm level output volatility using a balanced panel dataset on German firms that...

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What drives aggregate investment?

Bachmann, Ruediger; Zorn, Peter - 2013 - This Version: April 13, 2013

Using firm-level survey data for the West German manufacturing sector, this paper revisits the technology …-driven business cycle hypothesis for the case of aggregate investment. We construct a survey-based measure of technology shocks to … gauge their contribution to short-run investment fluctuations. We estimate an upper bound for the contribution of technology …

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The role of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer

Büttner, Thiess; Fuest, Clemens - 2009

This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...

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