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The gap between Canadian and U.S. living standards widened considerably in the 1990s. Americans, on average, were 16 per cent better off in terms of real personal income per capita in 2000 than in 1989, while Canadians experienced a 5 percent increase in real incomes. The thesis of this paper is...
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According to the conventional wisdom, we face a trade-off between our equity and efficiency objectives. The author challenges this proposition. He shows in a rigorous manner that employment subsidies can indeed lead to lower unemployment and higher productivity growth in a standard economic...
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. These discussions echo an ongoing discussion about the effects of long run sectoral reallocation. Based on estimates from a … large state space model over a long sample for the United States, long run sectoral reallocation does not appear to be … systematically related to movements in the Beveridge Curve, although reallocation does appear to be countercyclical and related to …
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This paper analyzes why the Philippines' growth performance has improved significantly in recent years. As in the medium to long term actual growth adjusts to potential, we posit that the reason behind this improvement is that the country’s potential growth is increasing. We derive an estimate...
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-worker establishments that endogenously enter and exit. Analytical results show cyclical entry and exit cause reallocation of inputs that …
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I carry out a business cycle accounting exercise (Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan, 2007) on theU.S. data measured in wage units (Farmer (2010)) for the entire postwar period. In contrast toa conventional approach, this approach preserves common medium-term business cyclefluctuations in GDP, its...
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We consider an incomplete-markets economy with capital accumulation and endogenous labor supply. Individuals face countercyclical idiosyncratic labor and asset risk. We derive conditions under which the aggregate allocations and price system can be found by solving a representative agent...
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We consider an incomplete-markets economy with capital accumulation and endogenous labor supply. Individuals face countercyclical idiosyncratic labor and asset risk. We derive conditions under which the aggregate allocations and price system can be found by solving a representative agent...
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labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …, the model is also consistent with different employment and reallocation outcomes as workers gain experience in the labor …
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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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