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Was Stalin Necessary for Russia's Economic Development?

Cheremukhin, Anton - 2013

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a...

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The Soviet Economic Decline : Historical and Republican Data

Easterly, William; Fischer, Stanley - 2021

Soviet growth over 1960-89 was the worst in the world after we control for investment and human capital; the relative performance worsens over time. The declining Soviet growth rate over 1950-87 is explained by the declining marginal product of capital; the rate of TFP growth is roughly constant...

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Experience, Vintage and Time Effects in the Growth of Earnings : Americanscientists, 1960-1970

Weiss, Yoram; Lillard, Lee A. - 2021

This paper is concerned with the growth of individual earnings over time. Four aspects of time are distinguished: experience, age, vintage and calendar year. The first section of the paper provides a brief outline of a theory of planned growth in earnings. The second and main section of the...

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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era

Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A. - 2021

The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...

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Age, Experience and Wage Growth

Lazear, Edward P. - 2021

During the past decade, much has been said about the role that on-the-job training plays in augmenting one's stock of human capital. Up to this point, little has been done to distinguish the effect of on-the-job training from that of aging on the increase in human wealth. The reason rests...

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The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002 : Evidence from Income Tax Statistics

Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2013

This paper studies the evolution of income concentration in Japan from 1886 to 2002 by constructing long-run series of top income shares and top wage income shares, using income tax statistics. We find that (1) income concentration was extremely high throughout the pre-WWII period during which...

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Wage Mobility and Dynamics in Italy in the 90's

Contini, Bruno - 2010

individual wages throughout the whole distribution increase as average firm wages increases, but the spread increases too. Firm … of average change in wages. Worker-based statistics, on the other side, show that relative changes in individual wages … a higher responsiveness. Both facts are at odds with the often reported rigidity of Italian wages. Indeed, the detected …

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Fifty Years of Growth in American Consumption, Income, and Wages

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2017

finding of zero growth in American real wages since the 1970s is driven in part by the choice of the CPI-U as the price … deflator such as the Personal Consumption Expenditures index (PCE) yields modest growth in real wages and in median household …

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Another Look at Whether a Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Hines, James R.; Hoynes, Hilary W.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

-skilled workers, while aggregate real wages are only mildly procyclical. Similar patterns appear in a balanced panel of PSID … respondents that removes the effects of changing workforce composition, though the magnitude of the responsiveness of real wages …

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From Soviets to Oligarchs : Inequality and Property in Russia, 1905-2016

Novokmet, Filip - 2017

This paper combines national accounts, survey, wealth and fiscal data (including recently released tax data on high-income taxpayers) in order to provide consistent series on the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth in Russia from the Soviet period until the present day. We find...

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