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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
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2010 and 2016, we analyse the relationships between productivity and wages. At odds with neoclassical theory of marginal … productivity of labor, we find that two thirds of firms insufficiently raised wages given observed productivity growth. Employing … the distributions. Most of the documented dynamics contributed not only to the divergence of productivity and wages but …
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determination processes. The low elasticities of wages to productivity are plausibly the consequence of the massive flow of migrant …This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the … long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity …
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Goldin and Katz's The Race between Education and Technology is a monumental achievement that supplies a unified framework for interpreting how the demand and supply of human capital have shaped the distribution of earnings in the U.S. labor market over the 20th century. This essay reviews the...
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After the global financial crisis, both export growth and economic growth have trended downward, while exports’ contributions to percentage change in GDP fell off markedly after 2011. For this study, we adopted an export multiplier approach by which exports’ indirect effects on the domestic...
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productivity measures for the Chinese economy. (ii) Produce a set of productivity statistics that can be integrated into the … existing set of OECD productivity indicators and that can be updated later on. The paper in three sections examines the … availability and quality of output, labor, and capital data. A further section discusses and calculates a range of productivity …
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productivity of labor. Therefore, a reallocation of labor from a sector with higher output per worker to a sector with lower output … per worker may be productivity enhancing …
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