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We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United …. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a one-year increase in a mother's employment is associated with six … weeks more employment of her child on average. The intergenerational transmission of maternal employment is stronger to …
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on output convergence. The evidence suggests that while the Employment Insurance (EI) system seems to have had a …
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results show that, prior to the recent global financial crisis, Poland's output and employment were both growing above …
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employment when industries are finely disaggregated (450 manufacturing industries). However, this affect disappears at more …
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This paper gauges the potential effects on employment of rebalancing China's exportoriented growth model toward … employment and employment opportunities in the longer term, there could be employment losses in the short run as the economy … moves away from the tradable sector toward the nontradable sector. Mitigating these costs will require active labor market …
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felt in all advanced economies. Reforms aimed at increasing productivity in services and reducing gaps in employment …
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This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium rational expectations model with search and multiple equilibria where aggregate shocks have a permanent effect on the unemployment rate. If agents' wealth decreases, the unemployment rate increases for a potentially indefinite period. This...
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This paper shows that labor market search frictions do not explain fluctuations in the labor wedge per se. However, the introduction of extensive and intensive margin clarifies that measuring the MRS in terms of total hours artificially introduces procyclicality in the MRS. When the MRS is...
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China’s high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country’s large current account surplus. The mainstream explanation for high corporate savings is a combination of windfall profits in state-owned firms, especially in resource sectors, and...
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