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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
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Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe
Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity …
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Revisiting Productivity Dynamics in Europe : A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth
Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in five European countries and in the United States. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...
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Countries for Old Men : An Analysis of the Age Pay Gap
Bianchi, Nicola; Paradisi, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first report new facts on the role of techies in the firm by using French administrative data and unique surveys. Techies are STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation,...
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Labor Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages : The Role of Spillover Effects
Fortin, Nicole Marie; Lemieux, Thomas; Lloyd, Neil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper examines the role of spillover effects of minimum wages and threat effects of unionization in changes in wage inequality in the United States between 1979 and 2017. A distribution regression framework is introduced to estimate both types of spillover effects. Threat effects double the...
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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil
Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We show that a rise in the minimum wage accounts for a large decline in earnings inequality in Brazil since 1994. To this end, we combine rich administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of the Brazilian labor market. Our results imply that the minimum wage has far-reaching...
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The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
for women is scarce. Using administrative data from Germany, we apply an event study design in combination with propensity …
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The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Spatial Frictions
Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
quantify the aggregate and distributional effects of spatial frictions that hinder worker mobility across regions in Germany … East and West Germany, especially due to the limited ability of workers to obtain job offers from more distant regions …. Despite the large real wage gap between East and West of Germany, removing the spatial frictions leads, in equilibrium, to …
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