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This study examines the extent to which the transition from university education to work is characterized by persistent hiring flows between university faculties and firms, rather than being characterized by an open market process. Using a specially devised metric, I find that more than one-half...
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: comparison with Japan, comparison with the New Economic Policy (NEP), and assuming alternative post-1940 growth scenarios. …
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period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital …
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. However, Japan started at a lower level than Britain and grew more slowly until the Meiji Restoration. …
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Should one think of zero nominal interest rates as an undesirable liquidity trap or as the desirable Friedman rule? I …-sitting coop’ model implies multiple equilibria, but does not support the injection of liquidity to restore the good equilibrium …
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. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies … indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the … sense that much of the increase in wage gap indices in Europe during 1968-70 and in Japan in 1973-74 can be interpreted as …
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experiences of Germany and Japan during periods when their exchange rates have apparently been undervalued and the more general …
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This paper considers the Great Inflation of the 1970s in Japan and Germany. From 1975 onward these countries had low … Japan and Germany’s monetary authorities - for example, more willingness to accept temporary unemployment, or stronger …
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Standard estimates of earnings profiles ignore the fact that, with unobserved heterogeneity, cross-section evidence need not reflect the `true' relationship between earnings and tenure. In this paper we argue that the observation of the position filled by an employee in the firm hierarchy is...
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A striking feature of many financial crises is the collapse of exports relative to output. In the 2008 financial crisis, real world exports plunged 17 percent while GDP fell 5 percent. This paper examines whether the drying up of trade finance can help explain the large drops in exports relative...
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