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This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi …-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital accumulation equations. Financialization … swings experienced by the financialization process.We find that it has had relevant unemployment effects in all periods …
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In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...
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In this paper we aim to trace the roots of the ongoing economic mayhem and to unmask the chorus of the tragedy which plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of perfect competition, the global fields of the dysfunctional...
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We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate theemployment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s.Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methodsin a dynamic, multiple...
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Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neustrukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte derersten drei Hartz-Gesetze belegen nun vielfach, welche Instrumente der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik sich durch ihre Wirksamkeit...
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performance. We conduct 6 experimental treatments varying (i) whether workers' pay depends on the performance evaluation, (ii …
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. Second, we show that authors who publish in these journals are more likely to receive a positive evaluation when (randomly …
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This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...
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In a world increasingly globalized, multiple language skills can create more employment opportunities. Several countries include language training programs in active labor market programs for the unemployed. We analyze the effects of a language training program on the re-employment probability...
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Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...
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