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The pace of job reallocation has declined in all U.S. sectors since 2000. In standard models, aggregate job reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal responsiveness of businesses to those shocks. Using several novel...
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Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in the economy, yet there exists little well-identified research into the effects …
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' innate talents, which in turn is associated with improved performance by locally headquartered firms. In essence, our results …
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-collar jobs and the equilibrium effects on wages; earnings for the most risk-averse type would have to be nearly fifteen percent …
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Business microdata have proven useful in a number of fields, but the main sources of comprehensive microdata are subject to significant confidentiality restrictions. A growing number of papers instead use a private data source seeking to cover the universe of U.S. business establishments, the...
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I propose a new mechanism for sluggish wages based on workers' noisy information about the state of the economy. Wages … higher wages. This increases firms' incentives to post more vacancies, which makes unemployment volatile and sensitive to … aggregate shocks. The model is robust to two major criticisms of existing theories of sluggish wages and volatile unemployment …
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