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Families in macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
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Macroeconomic determinants of retirement timing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Song, Jae; Stolyarov, Dmitriy - 2013
We analyze lifetime earnings histories of white males during 1960-2010 and categorize the labor force status of every worker as either working full-time, partially retired or fully retired. We find that the fraction of partially retired workers has risen dramatically (from virtually 0 to 15...
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Identification of business cycles and the Great Moderation in the post-war U.S. economy
Jiang, Yu - In: Economics letters 190 (2020), pp. 1-5
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Measuring monetary policy deviations from the Taylor rule
Madeira, João; Palma, Nuno - In: Economics letters 168 (2018), pp. 25-27
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Dissecting US recoveries
Gadea, María Dolores; Gómez-Loscos, Ana; … - In: Economics letters 154 (2017), pp. 59-63
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Google It Up! : a Google Trends-based Uncertainty index for the United States and Australia
Castelnuovo, Efrem; Trung Duc Tran - In: Economics letters 161 (2017), pp. 149-153
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A reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the...
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Duration dependence in US expansions : a re-examination of the evidence
Beaudry, Paul; Portier, Franck - In: Economics letters 183 (2019), pp. 1-4
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Labor market effects of US sick pay mandates
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …
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Does private schooling increase adult earnings? : cohort-level evidence for U.S. states
Berger, Reilee L.; Winters, John V. - 2016
Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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