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We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between working in the production or in the financial sector. Frictions in the market for deposits create...
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shifts by (observable) changes in the capital stock under a capital-skill complementarity technology. The results show that … stock of capital, the KORV model predicts that the skill-premium will remain between -5% and +5% of its 1996 level …
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Differences in wages, employment, and capital between worker-owned and capitalist enterprises are computed from a …, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …
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The capital-to-labor ratio has steadily risen in the U.S. and elsewhere during the post-WWII period. Since the 1970s … determinant such as the observed decline in the relative price of new capital goods, or the change in production technology … market augmented by a CES production function that allows firms to substitute between capital and labor at varying degrees …
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This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in … immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and … parametric production function calibrated to our estimates imply the level of capital-skill complementarity after 1890 likely …
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particular, capital-skill complementarity represents a source of relative skill-bias while SETI provides an absolute skill …
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their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively … related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when capital is immobile, host nations' optimal levels of immigration are … positively related to their capital endowments. Further, when capital is mobile between the two host nations, the common return …
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balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise … shows some support for capital-skill complementarity, but the strength of the evidence depends upon the definition of …
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Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same crop in the same year, within a...
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This paper characterizes efficient labor-market allocations in a labor selection model. The model's crucial aspect is cross-sectional heterogeneity for new job contacts, which leads to an endogenous selection threshold for new hires. With cross-sectional dispersion calibrated to microeconomic...
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