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Eastern Europe the employment share of agriculture is typically quite large, and agriculture is particularly unproductive …
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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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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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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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labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …
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expected to have only small allocational consequences and that measures of base wages are more useful in drawing conclusions …
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countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …
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