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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - 2014
inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333264
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329109
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Labor Market Power and Development
Armangué-Jubert, Tristany; Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, … - 2023
Imperfect competition in labor markets can lead to efficiency losses and lower aggregate output. In this paper, we study whether differences in competitiveness of labor markets can help explain differences in GDP per capita across countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469352
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - 2015
. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … income inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500338
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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884330
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168625
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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … income inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167204
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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2008
In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268612
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Social change
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2008
A society is characterized by the common attitudes and behavior of its members. Such behavior reflects purposive decision making by individuals, given the environment they live in. Thus, as technology changes, so might social norms. There were big changes in social norms during the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268651
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Marriage and divorce since World War II: analyzing the role of technological progress on the formation of households
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih - 2008
Since World War II there has been: (i) a rise in the fraction of time that married households allocate to market work, (ii) an increase in the rate of divorce, and (iii) a decline in the rate of marriage. It is argued here that labor-saving technological progress in the household sector can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268809