The relative distribution of the populations of the top 40 urban areas of France and Japan remained very constant during these countries' periods of industrialization and urbanization. Moreover, projection of their future distributions based on past growth indicates that their size-distributions...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Central Bank Lessons from the Global Crisis -- I MONETARY POLICY IN VIEW OF THE CRISIS -- 1. Monetary Policy Frameworks after the Great Financial Crisis -- 2. The Role of Monetary Policy in Turkey during the Global Financial Crisis -- 3. An...

Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Aggregate Macroeconomic Impact of a Large Inflow of Immigrants -- 3 On the Wage Growth of Immigrants -- 4 Immigrants' Choice of Employment, Occupation, and Human Capital: Dynamic Stochastic Empirical...

How well does a simple search on-the-job model fit the eighteen years of job and wage mobility of high school graduates? To answer this question we are confronted from the data with a prevalent non-compliance and exemptions from the minimum wage. We incorporate this observation in a job search...