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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

considered here rests on the view that IT makes the acquisition of knowledge cheaper, which intensifies competition among workers … specialized in knowledge production. Those who lose in such competition end up displaced to occupations with a lower knowledge … inequality. The least skilled do not participate in this competition, as they are not specialized in knowledge production; they …

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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection

Saint-Paul, Gilles; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model, firms use discretion in terms of whom...

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Secular Satiation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017

satiation. This, despite that the social costs of innovation are second order compared to their social benefits. Multiple … savings reduces interest rates, which boosts the rate of innovation. When TFP grows exogenously and labor supply is …

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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? : Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2004

This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage differentials between workers along industry and firm size dimensions, and estimated welfare differences...

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Making sense of Bolkestein-bashing: trade liberalization under segmented labor markets

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2005

, there exists a class of workers in the West who are harmed because they face competition from Eastern workers and cannot …

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