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Wages, productivity, and work intensity in the great depression
Darby, Julia; Hart, Robert A. - 2002
' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …
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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor);  … - 2008
from rural to urban locations is endogenous and linked to productivity differences between the two locations and survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759906
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Productivity growth and the Phillips curve : a reassessment of the US experience
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2009
) shifts with productivity growth. On this basis we estimate a dynamic system of macrolabour equations to evaluate the slope of …-run. Furthermore, during the stagflating 70s, the productivity slowdown contributed substantially to the increases in both unemployment … monetary expansion and productivity speedup of the roaring 90s were both responsible for the significant lowering of the …
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Trends in hours and economic growth
Ngai, Liwa Rachel (contributor);  … - 2007
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
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What do unions do for economic performance?
Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Health and economic growth
Bloom, David E.; Kuhn, Michael; Prettner, Klaus - 2018
Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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Health and economic growth : reconciling the micro and macro evidence
Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Kotschy, Rainer; … - 2018
Micro-based and macro-based approaches have been used to assess the effects of health on economic growth. Micro-based approaches aggregate the return on individual health from Mincerian wage regressions to derive the macroeconomic effects of population health. Macro-based approaches estimate a...
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Health and health behaviors during the worst of times : evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - 2013
While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...
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Entrepreneurship over the business cycle in the United States: a decomposition
Fossen, Frank M. - 2019
Entry rates into self-employment increase during recessions and decrease during economic upswings. I show that this is mostly explained by the higher unemployment rate during a recession, together with the fact that at all times, unemployed persons have a relatively high propensity to become...
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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