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market with wage rigidities may not recover from such a temporary labor supply shock: with a younger and less experienced … even after the shock. In a competitive market, in contrast, wage inequality and notably, the wage return to experience … becomes higher but there is no persistence of the supply shock. Higher education prevents this intertemporal multiplication of …
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We estimate the changes in US male labor market risk over the last three decades in a model of endogenous labor supply and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover, heterogeneity in pay across offered jobs has increased for...
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The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital changes relative factor prices and thus incentives to acquire skills, thereby altering the...
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-level demand shock, which is biased towards low-skill intensive products. Consistent with this, an increase in Chinese import …
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We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...
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This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...
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