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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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One Cohort at a Time : A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; Bianchi, Nicola; Lattanzio, Salvatore - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
younger workers, analyzing data from the United States, Italy, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We propose a model of the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576641
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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91
Blau, Francine D. - 1997
This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … evidence that the large public sector in Germany in effect functions as an employer of last resort, absorbing some otherwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472736
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576655
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Revisiting Productivity Dynamics in Europe : A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth
Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in five European countries and in the United States. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247926
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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity …
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing : The Role of Computer Investment
Dunne, Timothy - 2000
By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the source of the changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the last several decades. Based on theoretical work by Caselli (1999) and Kremer and Maskin (1996), we focus on...
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