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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs
Beaudry, Paul - 2010
Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The … relationship between changes in industry-specific city-level wages and changes in industrial composition. Our finding is that the … very substantial and persistent. Our point estimates indicate that the total effect on average wages of a change in …
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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends
Beaudry, Paul - 2008
This paper documents the pattern of change in age-earnings profiles across cohorts and evaluates its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the Survey of Consumer Finances over the period 1971 to 1993, we show that the age-earning profiles of Canadian men have been deteriorating for more...
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In Search of Labor Demand
Beaudry, Paul - 2014
reflects the congestion externalities predicted by the search literature. Also, holding wages constant, an increase in the …
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What is Driving Us and Canadian Wages : Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. - 2021
This paper proposes a new and unified explanation for the following trends observed over the last 25 years: (1) the increased returns to education, (2) the slow measured growth in TFP in an economy undergoing massive changes in its methods of production, and (3) the poor wage performance,...
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