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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor force participation decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the...

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Unemployment in an Estimated New Keynesian Model

Gali, Jordi; Smets, Frank Rafael; Wouters, Rafael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

We reformulate the Smets-Wouters (2007) framework by embedding the theory of unemployment proposed in Galí (2011a …,b). We estimate the resulting model using postwar U.S. data, while treating the unemployment rate as an additional observable … output gap. In addition, the estimated model can be used to analyze the sources of unemployment fluctuations. …

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The Effect of Regulatory Harmonization on Cross-border Labor Migration: Evidence from the Accounting Profession

Leuz, Christian; Bloomfield, Matthew J.; Brüggemann, Ulf; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

The paper examines the effect of international regulatory harmonization on cross-border labor migration. We analyze directives in the European Union (EU) that harmonized accounting and auditing standards. This regulatory harmonization should make it less costly for those who work in the...

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Mismatch Unemployment

topa, giorgio; Şahin, Ayşegül; Song, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new …/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share …

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap

Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...

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Joint-Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions

Guvenen, Fatih; Guler, Bulent; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Search theory routinely assumes that decisions about the acceptance/rejection of job offers (and, hence, about labor market movements between jobs or across employment states) are made by individuals acting in isolation. In reality, the vast majority of workers are somewhat tied to their...

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The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

Peri, Giovanni; D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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Voting on Prices vs. Voting on Quantities in a World Climate Assembly

Weitzman, Martin L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

This paper posits the conceptually useful allegory of a futuristic "World Climate Assembly" that votes on global carbon emissions via the basic principle of majority rule. Two variants are considered. One is to vote on a universal price (or tax) that is internationally harmonized, but the...

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The Empiricists' Insurgency

Berman, Eli; Matanock, Aila M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

Research on insurgency has been invigorated this past decade by better data, improved methods, and the urgency of understanding active engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan. This empiricists’ insurgency reinforces a classic literature on the essential role of civilians while challenging older...

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Empirical Research on Sovereign Debt and Default

Wright, Mark; Tomz, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

In this essay we review the empirical literature about sovereign debt and default. As we survey the work of economists, historians, and political scientists, we also emphasize parallel developments by theorists and recommend steps to improve the correspondence between theory and data.

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