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Women Working Longer : Facts and Some Explanations
Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2016
American women are working more, through their sixties and even into their seventies. Their increased participation at older ages started in the late 1980s before the turnaround in older men's labor force participation and the economic downturns of the 2000s. The higher labor force participation...
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Ai and Jobs : Evidence from Online Vacancies
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Hazell, Jonathon; … - 2022
We study the impact of AI on labor markets using establishment-level data on vacancies with detailed occupation and skill information comprising the near-universe of online vacancies in the US from 2010 onwards. There is rapid growth in AI related vacancies over 2010-2018 that is greater in...
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The New Lifecycle of Women's Employment : Disappearing Humps, Sagging Middles, Expanding Tops
Goldin, Claudia - 2019
A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment had a hump shape; it increased from the twenties to the forties, hit a peak and then declined starting in the fifties. The new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat,...
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Doomed to Deficits? Aggregate U.S. Trade Flows Re-Examined
Chinn, Menzie David - 2021
cointegration, although the price elasticity is not statistically significant. Only when excluding computers and parts from the …
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Monetary Policy in Japan, Germany and the United States : Does One Size Fit All?
Chinn, Menzie David; Dooley, Michael P. - 2021
We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese monetary policy is that there are significant differences...
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Distributional National Accounts : Methods and Estimates for the United States
Piketty, Thomas - 2017
This paper combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of national income in the United States since 1913. Our distributional national accounts capture 100% of national income, allowing us to compute growth rates for each quantile of the income distribution...
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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave : An Exploratory Study
Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - 2022
Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection...
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Optimal Taxation of Top Labor Incomes : A Tale of Three Elasticities
Piketty, Thomas - 2011
rate formula as a function of the three corresponding behavioral elasticities. The first elasticity (labor supply) is the … elasticity (avoidance) through tax enforcement and tax neutrality across income forms. The optimal top tax rate increases with … the third elasticity (bargaining) as bargaining efforts are zero-sum in aggregate. We provide evidence using cross …
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The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates : A Critical Review
Saez, Emmanuel - 2010
that arise in the empirical estimation of the elasticity of taxable income using the example of the 1993 top individual …This paper critically surveys the large and growing literature estimating the elasticity of taxable income with respect … assumptions this elasticity can be used as a sufficient statistic for efficiency and optimal tax analysis. We discuss what other …
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Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?
Saez, Emmanuel - 2021
compensated elasticity of income with respect to tax rates. These models are used to perform simulations of bunching and calibrate … the key parameters (the behavioral elasticity and the extent to which taxpayers control their income) to the empirical … income distributions. Except for low income earners, the behavioral elasticity consistent with the empirical results is small …
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