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Rent building, rent sharing : a panel country-industry empirical analysis
Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - 2012
Through panel estimates using OECD country-industry statistics, this paper aims to clarify the determinants of rent creation and the mechanisms of rent sharing, and the role of market regulations in these processes. The empirical analysis is carried out in two steps. The first explains the rent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534964
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Capital shares and income inequality : evidence from the long run
Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares in 19 countries and data from the World Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408188
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401020
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Import competition and the great US employment sag of the 2000s
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2015
a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528574
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On the persistence of the China shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … - similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653204
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Rent sharing in China : magnitude, heterogeneity and drivers
Duan, Wenjing; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985679
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Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation : evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants
Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor inputs, and output. We detect an inverted U- shaped relationship between temperature and TFP and...
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Import competition, formalization, and the role of contract labor
Chakraborty, Pavel; Rahul Singh; Soundararajan, Vidhya - 2022
Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports increases the share of formal manufacturing enterprise employment in India. This formal share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470223
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Trading places : mobility responses of native and foreign-born adults to the China trade shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2024
respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import competition from China. Although foreign-born population headcounts fell by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046089
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Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? : evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990 - 1999
Paserman, Marco Daniele (contributor) - 2008
During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption and integration into the workforce of highly...
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