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Regional economy and manufacturing update

Dudley, William - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2010

Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.

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Regional economy and manufacturing update

Dudley, William - In: Speech (2010) Jul 22

Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.

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The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies across OECD countries

Amaral, Pedro S.; Tasci, Murat - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2012

We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated stochastic labor search-and-matching model to account for the observed volatility of unemployment and vacancies extends beyond U.S. data to a set of OECD countries. We also argue that using cross-country data is helpful in evaluating the...

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Task assignment over the business cycle

Devereux, Paul J. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2000

In this article, I evaluate the hypothesis that firms respond to negative demand shocks by assigning workers to tasks that require less skill than the tasks they normally carry out. Using changes in employment in state-industry cells as a measure of demand conditions facing individual firms, I...

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An RBC model with growth: the role of human capital

Marquis, Milton H.; Einarsson, Tor - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 1994

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The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees

Praag, Mirjam; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, Justin … - In: Small Business Economics 40 (2013) 2, pp. 375-396

How valuable is formal education for entrepreneurs’ income relative to employees’? And if the income returns to formal education are different for entrepreneurs vis-à-vis employees, what might be a plausible explanation? To explore these questions, we analyze a large representative US...

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Wages and Human Capital in Exporting Firms in Morocco

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe Jalil - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

We study the relationship between wages, human capital accumulation and work organisation in Morocco using matched … worker-firm data for Metallurgical-electrical and Textile-clothing firms. While wages are found to rise with all human … capital characteristics, returns to education and experience are much higher for the upper wages. Participation in on …

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The role of market access and human capital in regional wage disparities: Empirical evidence for Ecuador

Alvarado, Rafael; Atienza, Miguel - Instituto de Economía Aplicada Regional, Facultad de … - 2014

cross-sectional data, suggest that market access has a positive and statistically significant effect on wages, although this …

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Social Returns to Education; Evidence From Italian Local Labor Market Areas

Dalmazzo, A.; Blasio, Guido De - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

for individual characteristics, local average human capital is positively correlated with individual wages, with estimated …

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Human capital, aggregate shocks, and panel data estimation

Altug, Sumru; Miller, Robert A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis - 1990

This paper analyses how the wage and employment decisions of females are affected by past workforce participation and hours supplied. Our estimation methods exploit the fact that, when markets are complete, the Lagrange multiplier for an agent’s lifetime budget constraint always enters...

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