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We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation in 1980, they were more likely to shift to high-skill,...
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wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …
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prices and total factor productivity (TFP) with the aim of highlighting data patterns that are useful for evaluating business … run movements in total factor productivity and (ii) such stock prices innovations do not affect U.S. sectoral TFPs …
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our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …
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firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority …, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for the median-paid employee to 0.15 for the top-paid employee … rising productivity can explain 40% of the rise in within-firm inequality since 1980 …
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This paper starts by documenting a new fact that consumer price index (CPI) and producer price index (PPI) used to move in tandem within a given country around the world, but start to diverge after 2000. Understanding the source of divergence is important as it potentially affects optimal...
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This paper looks at why bank consolidation has been taking place in the United States and what the structure of the banking industry might look like in the future. It then discusses the implications of bank consolidation for the economy and the challenge it poses for central bankers
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We study how international trade affects manufacturing employment and the relative wage of unskilled workers when goods and services are traded with different intensities. Manufacturing trade reduces manufacturing prices worldwide, which reduces manufacturing employment if manufactures and...
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