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Using high-quality administrative data, I analyze workers' opportunity costs of reallocation across occupations by … changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses. Interpreted … would only reallocate when they can recoup the costs of reallocation through wage gains. To shed some light on the question …
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This paper advocates for incorporating timely measures of firms' current situation and future expectations when disentangling real effects of credit supply from demand-side factors. Identification of supply-side effects in firm-level analyses often relies on balance sheet variables to control...
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. The reallocation-timing hypothesis posits that plants suffering adverse permanent demand/productivity shocks delay …
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Capital reallocation between firms is procyclical and leads to variations in measured aggregate productivity. In this … paper, we ask how much of the cyclical variation in measured productivity is the consequence of capital reallocation. We … costs of reallocation. These shocks cause an endogenous cyclicality of measured aggregate productivity. Only a model driven …
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We use a CES production function with no restrictions on technical bias to derive relationships between the growth in relative factor shares and (i) the capital to labor ratio and (ii) the ratio of marginal products. These relationships constitute a parsimonious specification used to identify...
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This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
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Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...
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This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a … following the Great Recession. -- Sectoral shifts ; reallocation ; natural rate ; unemployment ; turbulence ; stochastic …
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capital mismatch. Looking at the period of the Great Recession, reallocation has had no detectable effect on the natural rate … the beginning of 2011. -- Mismatch ; sectoral shifts ; reallocation ; natural rate ; unemployment ; Great Recession …
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We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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