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The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries
Olivetti, Claudia - 2016
Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...
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Spill-Overs from Good Jobs
Beaudry, Paul - 2010
Does attracting or losing jobs in high paying sectors have important spill-over effects on wages in other sectors? The answer to this question is central to a proper assessment of many trade and industrial policies. In this paper, we explore this question by examining how predictable changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760221
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Estimation of Random Coefficient Demand Models : Challenges, Difficulties and Warnings
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2008
Empirical exercises in economics frequently involve estimation of highly nonlinear models. The criterion function may not be globally concave or convex and exhibit many local extrema. Choosing among these local extrema is non-trivial for a variety of reasons. In this paper, we analyze the...
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The Home Market, Trade, and Industrial Structure
Davis, Donald R. - 2021
Does national market size matter for industrial structure? This has been suggested by theoretical work on home market … homogeneous goods have identical transport costs, the home market effect disappears. The paper discusses available evidence on the … relative trade costs for differentiated and homogenous goods. No compelling argument is found that market size will matter for …
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Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industry Distribution of Employment
Davis, Steven J.; Henrekson, Magnus - 2021
the economic policy environment as determined by business taxes, employment securitylaws, credit market regulations, the …
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Affiliates of U.S. And Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
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Determinants of Business Cycle Comovement : A Robust Analysis
Baxter, Marianne; Kouparitsas, Michael A. - 2021
This paper investigates the determinants of business cycle comovement between countries. Our dataset includes over 100 countries, both developed and developing. We search for variables that are robust' in explaining comovement, using the approach of Leamer (1983). Variables considered are (i)...
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Empirical Industrial Organization : A Progress Report
Einav, Liran - 2010
The field of Industrial Organization has made dramatic advances over the last few decades in developing empirical methods for analyzing imperfect competition and the organization of markets. We describe the motivation for these developments and some of the successes. We also discuss the relative...
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Labor Market Frictions as a Source of Comparative Advantage, with Implications for Unemployment and Inequality
Helpman, Elhanan - 2010
labor market frictions and worker heterogeneity provides a framework for studying the impact of trade on unemployment and …
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On the Dynamics of Trade Reform
Albuquerque, Rui A.; Rebelo, Sergio T. - 2022
The empirical evidence on trade reforms suggests that these have a surprisingly small impact on the country's industrial configuration. This industrial structure inertia is difficult to rationalize in standard trade models. This paper develops a two-sector industry dynamics model in which...
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