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Understanding the contributions of reallocation to productivity growth : lessons from a comparative firm-level analysis
Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2008
; Hungary ; Lithuania ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755335
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The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues - including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412846
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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Measuring immigration's effects on labor demand: a reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor);  … - 2007
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes, thanks to various secondary adjustment processes made possible by flexible markets. One adjustment process that has received scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591488
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The rise and fall of Swiss unemployment : relative demand shocks, wage rigidities, and temporary immigrants
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744019
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Product demand shifts and wage inequality
Leonardi, Marco (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001808397
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Wages and employment growth : disaggregated evidence for West Germany
Südekum, Jens (contributor); Blien, Uwe (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002035789
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Time-poor, working, super-rich
Corneo, Giacomo - 2017
This paper revisits the standard model of labor supply under two additional assumptions: consumption requires time and some limited amount of work is enjoyable. Whereas introducing each assumption without the other one does not produce novel insights, combining them together does if the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607470
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Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018
Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951702
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Formality, informality, and social welfare
Bennett, John (contributor) - 2008
An industry is modeled in which entrepreneurs, who are heterogeneous in ability, may produce formally or informally. It is shown how the formal-informal mix depends on the distribution of ability, product demand and various parameter values. The industry equilibrium is compared to one in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724143