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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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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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Bias in U.S. Import Prices and Demand

Feenstra, Robert C.; Shiells, Clinton R. - 2021

product varieties, or new foreign suppliers, and determine the effect of this bias on the estimated income elasticity of … index. Using a correction based on the falling expenditure share on sampled countries, we find that the income elasticity of …

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U.S. Imports, Exports, and Tariff Data, 1989-2001

Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John; Schott, Peter K. - 2021

This paper describes the updating of the NBER trade dataset, which now provides U.S. import and export values to the year 2001, disaggregated by Harmonized System (HS), Standard International Trade Classification (SITC), and the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) categories. In...

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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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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market : An Experimental Study

Deming, David J.; Yuchtman, Noam; Abulafi, Amira; … - 2014

We study employers' perceptions of the value of postsecondary degrees using a field experiment. We randomly assign the sector and selectivity of institutions to fictitious resumes and apply to real vacancy postings for business and health jobs on a large online job board. We find that a business...

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Protectionist Threats and Foreign Direct Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2012

The recent literature on quid pro quo foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI may be induced by the threat of protection, and further, that FDI may be used as an instrument to defuse a protectionist threat. This paper uses a panel data set of 4-digit SIC level observations of Japanese...

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Pricing to Market, Staggered Contracts, and Real Exchange Rate Persistence

Bergin, Paul R. - 2010

This paper offers an explanation for the persistence observed in real exchange rate movements. The model combines pricing to market behavior with sticky prices generated by staggered contracts. A translog preference structure is sued to enhance both features. The paper finds that openness limits...

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In Search of the Armington Elasticity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2014

The elasticity of substitution between goods from different countries---the Armington elasticity---is important for … many questions in international economics, but its magnitude is subject to debate: the "macro" elasticity between home and … import goods is often found to be smaller than the "micro" elasticity between foreign sources of imports. We investigate …

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The Us-China Bilateral Trade Balance : its Size and Determinants

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hai, Wen; Woo, Wing Thye; Yao, Shunli - 2021

estimation method that takes advantage of our access to detailed Chinese Customs data at the commodity level. For example, the …

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