The extent to which domestic and foreign operations of multinational corporations (MNCs) are related has important implications for the analysis of investment demand and its responsiveness to tax policy. We estimate the structural parameters of a model in which domestic and foreign investment...

A large body of literature explains the inferior position of unskilled workers by imposing a structural shift in the labor force skill composition. This paper takes a different approach by emphasizing the connection between cyclical variations in skilled and unskilled labor markets. Using a...

Estimates of price substitution among capital, labor, and energy are critical to numerous policy issues. Estimating factor share equations of the translog production function requires constant returns to scale and competitive factor markets. The present estimates find mixed evidence on these...

Occupational licensing and non-competition agreements are two important types of labour market regulation in the United States, both covering around one fifth of all workers. While some regulation is needed to protect safety and ensure quality of services, it also creates entry barriers and...

Despite a record of sustained growth in employment in the United States, there is long-standing concern that the new jobs are of poor quality, implying that the quality of the stock of jobs in the economy is deteriorating. In fact, it is difficult to define a new job, much less identify such...

I propose a new decomposition of aggregate total factor productivity. I model productivity as an index of unmeasured factors of production, and decompose the conditional factor demand for this index. With this model of productivity, changes in the price of labor or capital cause substitution to...

In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in recent decades, this paper relaxes these assumptions, proposes a time-series calculation of the...