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This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of...
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Regional labor market discrepancies have been widening in Belgium in the last two decades and are more evident within …-unemployment provinces. Using a structural VAR, it is also shown that labor market dynamics in Belgium produce a strong attenuating effect on … employment growth, in contrast to the United States where initial labor demand shocks are expanded in the long run. After the …
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Labor markets around the world have become increasingly integrated over the last two decades, with the entry of China … rapid technological progress. At the same time, the share of labor in national income decreased in most advanced countries …. This paper uses a labor share equation derived from a translog revenue function to estimate the contributions of …
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Using a production function method, this paper assesses the impact of the global crisis on the potential growth of Australia and New Zealand. The two countries have not been hit hard by the global crisis, but have large net external liabilities. The paper finds that the main negative impact of...
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size to set up a quasi-experiment and data from the French labor force survey, we show that the law constrained the choice …
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capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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