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for this economy, thereby obtaining a theory of endogenous growth that captures in a tractable way the social nature of …
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It is widely hypothesized that incomes in wealthy countries are insulated from environmental conditions because individuals have the resources needed to adapt to their environment. We test this idea in the wealthiest economy in human history. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate...
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Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime … not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on hours worked. More substantial effects are picked up in industry wages …, especially for industries characterized by low price-over-cost markup ratios, and in overtime wages and overtime employment. The …
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significantly affects U.S. inward foreign direct investment. We find no evidence that relative wages have a significant impact on …
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This paper offers a thesis as to why the US overtook the UK and other European countries in the 20th century in both aggregate and per-capita GDP, as a case study of recent models of endogenous growth where human capital is the "engine of growth". The conjecture is that the ascendancy of the US...
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Over the last 50 years, there has been a remarkable convergence in the occupational distribution between white men, women, and blacks. We measure the macroeconomic consequences of this convergence through the prism of a Roy model of occupational choice in which women and blacks face frictions in...
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: experience, age, vintage and calendar year. The first section of the paper provides a brief outline of a theory of planned growth …
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Worldwide, dependency ratios are forecast to increase dramatically in the next 50 years. A great deal of attention has been devoted to understanding the changes in fiscal policies that must' take place to accommodate these changes. In contrast, less effort has been concentrated on studying the...
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Individuals differ in both inherited and acquired abilities, but only the latter differ among countries and time periods. Human capital analysis deals with acquired capabilities which are developed through formal and informal education at school and at home, and through training, experience, and...
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impact on wages or government receipts and expenditures) is far too mixed to allow unequivocal inferences. This paper surveys …
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