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Taxes and Growth in a Financially Underdeveloped Country : Evidence from the Chilean Investment Boom

Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2006

profits or capital gains primarily reduce the investment of financially unconstrained firms. Chile experienced a banking …

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Measuring Aggregate Productivity Growth Using Plant-Level Data

Petrin, Amil - 2005

manufacturing industries in Chile. We find that our measure does differ substantially from other widely used measures with …

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Productivity Growth and Disinflation in Chile

De Gregorio, Jose - 2004

This paper analyzes the role productivity growth had on disinflation in Chile during the 1990s. It argues that …

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A Decade Lost and Found : Mexico and Chile in the 1980s

Bergoeing, Raphael - 2001

Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a … two countries was the earlier policy reforms in Chile that generated faster productivity growth. The most crucial of these …

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Growth, Macroeconomics, and Development

Fischer, Stanley - 1991

from large multi?country case studies, and from case-studies of Chile and Cote d'Ivoire presented in the paper, shows that …

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An Introduction to School-To-Work Programs in the NLSY97 : How Prevalent are They, and Which Youths do They Serve?

Neumark, David - 2000

In the wake of the 1994 School-to-Work Opportunities Act (STWOA), we introduce and study two new data sources to estimate the extent to which school-to-work programs have been implemented in U.S. high schools, and the extent to which high school students are participating in these programs. The...

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The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market

Shimer, Robert - 1999

This paper estimates the response of the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate to exogenous variation in the youth share of the working age population, using cross-state variation in lagged birth rates as an instrumental variable. A one percent increase in the youth share reduces...

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A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment

Neumark, David - 1999

We estimate the employment effects of changes in national minimum wages using a pooled cross-section time-series data set comprising sixteen OECD countries for the period 1975-1997. We pay particular attention to the impact of cross-country differences in minimum wage systems and in other labor...

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Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion

Freeman, Richard B. - 1999

The current expansion has shattered the length of the previous longest peace-time boom and brought unemployment rates below four percent in 44 percent of metropolitan areas. We estimate the expansion's impact on the labor market outcomes of less-educated men. We find that young men, especially...

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Computerization, Obsolescence, and the Length of Working Life

Hudomiet, Peter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper analyzes how computerization affected the labor market outcomes of older workers between 1984 and 2017. Using the computerization supplements of the Current Population Survey (CPS) we show that different occupations were computerized at different times, older workers tended to start...

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