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We estimate a New Keynesian general-equilibrium open economy model to examine how changes in oil prices affect the macroeconomy. Our model allows oil price changes to be transmitted through temporary demand and supply channels (affecting the output gap), as well as through persistent supply side...
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measure of establishment labour productivity. In addition, the implications of training for the firm's bottom line are … labour productivity outcome and, in the case of the earlier survey, for the financial performance indicator as well. However …
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In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and … health gradient differs for men across the two countries in question. There are a several key findings. First, looking across … a wide variety of diagnosed diseases, average health status among mature men is much worse in America compared to …
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This paper focuses on the differences in earnings and labor force status of low-skilled prime age men in France, the … called the not-in-labor force rate) among low-skilled men exceeds the percentage of the unemployed, whereas in France the …
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that accounting for own-use production changes considerably the picture on the work burden of men and women. …
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Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … or individual self-reports. In contrast to these disease based measures, health of American men appears to be superior to …
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took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this … paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power with women. In our model, women's legal rights set the marital … bargaining power of husbands and wives. We show that men face a tradeoff between the rights they want for their own wives (namely …
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This paper examines how the economic well-being of households changes after a male household member exits the labor force. We examine, in four countries, labor force exits at various ages and present evidence on household income from various sources before and after the exit occurs. We focus on...
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How costly will rising temperature due to climate change be for the U.S. economy? Recent research has used the well-identified response of output to weather to estimate this cost. But agents may adapt to the new climate. We propose a methodology to infer adaptation technology from the...
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It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 … productivity. A one percentage point increase in training is associated with an increase in value added per hour of about 0.6% and …
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