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We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higherorder risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income process by GMM for household data from the United States. We find countercyclical...
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The Hodrick-Prescott filter is a popular tool in macroeconomics for decomposing a time series into a smooth trend and a business cycle component. The last few years have witnessed global events, such as the Global Financial Crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine, that have had...
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This paper reports analysis of minimum wage on Brazilian labor market combining micro longitudinal data and aggregated time-series data. After the analysis of the minimum wage effects on Brazilian wage distribution based on micro data, the effects on employment level and composition (formal X...
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I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test Bertola and Rogerson's (1997) hypothesis of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the manufacturing...
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This paper reexamines the dualistic view of LDC labor markets by studying the dynamics between "formal" and "informal" labor markets across a business cycle and a period of trade liberalization in Mexico, 1987-1993. Conventional earnings comparisons, even across time, are shown to be unreliable...
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This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany … relative importance of particular frequencies for the behavior of real wages. In the time domain we find that both real wages …. -- real wages ; business cycle ; frequency domain ; time domain ; Germany ; trend-cycle decomposition ; structural time series …
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