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We explore how house prices evolve under technological progress, when housing serves for consumption as well as store …
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of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen …
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This paper empirically tests the role of search frictions in driving qualification mismatches in the labor market … are more pervasive than in more developed economies. Moreover, frictions related to search costs are a crucial determinant …
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I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …
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Competing theories have been offered to explain differences in skill mix across cities. Two of these predict housing … housing demand theories taken together imply the college ratio of Hispanic workers in a city could correlate negatively with … location pattern to differences in housing demand. Overall, results support theoretical predictions that geographic variation …
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incomes across skill groups. The root cause of these diverging preferences is income inelastic housing demand, which we show … workers, their housing expenditure shares fall and they become more willing to cluster together in expensive, skill …
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The effects of skills achieved in early adulthood—as measured by the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) score, the Rotter score, and Deming’s (2017) Social score—are shown to impact education, income, and homeownership levels achieved in later life. Mediation analysis is used to identify...
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Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs...
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