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Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …

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Currency unions in prospect and retrospect

Silva, J.M.C. Santos; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We critically review the recent literature on currency unions, and discuss the methodological challenges posed by the empirical assessment of their costs and benefits. In the process, we provide evidence on the economic effects of the euro. In particular, and in contrast with estimates of the...

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The log of gravity

Santos Silva, Joao; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Although economists have long been aware of Jensen's inequality, many econometric applications have neglected an important implication of it: the standard practice of interpreting the parameters of log-linearized models estimated by ordinary least squares as elasticities can be highly misleading...

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Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor? : the effect of overtime, payroll taxes, and labor policies and costs on companies' product output and countries' GDP

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2014

both employment and hours, in individual companies as well as the overall economy. …

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Do labor costs affect companies' demand for labor? : overtime penalties, payroll taxes, and other labor policies alter costs and change employment and output

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021

both employment and hours, in individual companies as well as in the overall economy. …

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The labor market in the US, 2000-2016 : recovery from the Great Recession is essentially complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage issues

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2017

As the largest economy in the world, the US labor market is crucial to the economic well-being of citizens worldwide as well as, of course, that of its own citizens. Since 2000 the US labor market has undergone substantial changes, both reflecting the Great Recession, but also resulting from...

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The labor market in the US, 2000-2018 : recovery from the Great Recession is complete, but there are difficult unemployment and wage problems

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2019

As the largest economy in the world, the US labor market is crucial to the economic well-being of citizens worldwide as well, of course, that of its own citizens. Since 2000 the US labor market has undergone substantial changes, both reflecting the Great Recession, but also resulting from some...

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The impact of immigration on the structure of male wages: theory and evidence from Britain

Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …

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Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries

Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …

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The volatility of earnings: evidence from high-frequency firm-level data

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …

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