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Tax Reform and the Dutch Labor Market : An Applied General Equilibrium Approach

Bovenberg, A. Lans - 1998

This paper employs MIMIC, an applied general equilibrium model of the Dutch economy, to explore various tax cuts aimed at combating unemployment and raising labor supply. MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical foundation detailed description of Dutch labor-market...

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New Facts About Factor-Demand Dynamics : Employment, Jobs, and Workers

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1994

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of...

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The Impact of Health and Education on Labor Force Participation in Aging Societies – Projections for the United States and Germany from a Dynamic Microsimulation

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using a highly stylized dynamic microsimulation model, we project the labor force of the United States up to the year …. This has strong implications for their labor force developments. According to our microsimulation, the US labor force will …, despite population aging, increase by 16.2 percent in the age groups 15 to 74 (corresponding to 25.2 million workers) between …

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Forecasting Trends in Disability in a Super-Aging Society : Adapting the Future Elderly Model to Japan

Chen, Brian K. - 2016

Japan has experienced pronounced population aging, and now has the highest proportion of elderly adults in the world …. Yet few projections of Japan's future demography go beyond estimating population by age and sex to forecast the complex … evolution of the health and functioning of the future elderly. This study adapts to the Japanese population the Future Elderly …

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Immigration and Regional Specialization in AI

Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

I examine the specialization of US commuting zones in AI-related occupations over the 2000 to 2018 period. I define AI-related jobs based on keywords in Census occupational titles. Using the approach in Lin (2011) to identify new work, I measure job growth related to AI by weighting employment...

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Diversity, Immigration, and Redistribution

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020

This paper provides a simple conceptual framework that captures how different perceptions, attitudes, and biases about immigrants or minorities can shape preferences for redistribution. Through the lens of this framework, we review the empirical literature on the effects of racial diversity and...

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Technological Transitions with Skill Heterogeneity Across Generations

Adão, Rodrigo - 2020

Why are some technological transitions particularly unequal and slow to play out? We develop a theory to study transitions after technological innovations driven by worker reallocation within a generation and changes in the skill distribution across generations. The economy's transitional...

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An Experiment in Candidate Selection

Casey, Katherine - 2019

Are ordinary citizens or political party leaders better positioned to select candidates? While the American primary system lets citizens choose, most democracies rely instead on party officials to appoint or nominate candidates. The consequences of these distinct design choices are unclear:...

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The Immigrant Next Door : Exposure, Prejudice, and Altruism

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Chaney, Thomas; Hassan, Tarek A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior toward that group, exploiting plausibly exogenous shocks to the ancestral composition of US counties. We combine several existing large-scale surveys, cross-county data on implicit...

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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