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A Decade Lost and Found : Mexico and Chile in the 1980s
Bergoeing, Raphael - 2008
Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a … two countries was the earlier policy reforms in Chile that generated faster productivity growth. The most crucial of these …
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Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data
Petrin, Amil; Levinsohn, James A. - 2021
manufacturing industries in Chile. We find that our measure does differ substantially from other widely used measures with …
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Productivity Growth and Disinflation in Chile
de Gregorio, Jose - 2021
This paper analyzes the role productivity growth had on disinflation in Chile during the 1990s. It argues that …
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Growth, Macroeconomics, and Development
Fischer, Stanley - 2021
from large multi?country case studies, and from case-studies of Chile and Cote d'Ivoire presented in the paper, shows that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247273
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The Decline in Black Teenage Labor Force Participation in the South, 1900-1970 : The Role of Schooling
Margo, Robert A. - 2010
Between 1950 and 1970 the labor force participation rate of southern black males aged 16-19 declined by 27 percentage points. This decline has been attributed to two demand-side shocks: the mechanization of cotton agriculture in the 1950s and extensions in the coverage of the federal minimum...
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Prospective Analysis of a Wage Subsidy for Cape Town Youth
Levinsohn, James A. - 2011
Recognizing that a credible estimate of a wage subsidy's impact requires a model of the labor market that itself generates high unemployment in equilibrium, we estimate a structural search model that incorporates both observed heterogeneity and measurement error in wages. Using the model to...
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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment
Crepon, Bruno - 2014
This paper reports the results from a randomized experiment designed to evaluate the direct and indirect (displacement) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job...
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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2010
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling for a larger menu of policies, institutions and...
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Career Plans and Expectations of Young Women and Men : the Earnings Gap and Labor Force Participation
Blau, Francine D. - 2007
Using detailed information on the career plans and earnings expectations of college business school seniors, we test the hypothesis that women who plan to work intermittently choose jobs with lower rewards to work experience in return for lower penalties for labor force interruptions. We find...
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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2017
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
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