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New evidence, old puzzles : technology shocks and labor market dynamics

Balleer, Almut - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 3, pp. 363-392

rate and the unemployment rate? In the odel, these fluctuations are driven by movements in productivity. This paper … model is able to replicate the conditional volatilities of job finding and unemployment. However, it fails to replicate the … correlation of productivity with unemployment and job finding that is conditional on both technology and nontechnology shocks. …

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Anticipated productivity and the labor market

Chahrour, Ryan; Chugh, Sanjay K.; Potter, Tristan - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 3, pp. 897-934

We identify the main shock driving fluctuations in long‐horizon productivity expectations, consistent with theories of TFP news. The identified shock induces strong comovement patterns in output, consumption, investment, employment, and stock prices even though TFP does not change...

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Uncertainty-driven business cycles : assessing the markup channel

Born, Benjamin; Pfeifer, Johannes - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 2, pp. 587-623

Precautionary pricing and increasing markups in representative-agent DSGE models with nominal rigidities are commonly used to generate negative output effects of uncertainty shocks. We assess whether this theoretical model channel is consistent with the data. Three things stand out. First,...

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The evolution of the earnings distribution in a volatile economy : evidence from Argentina

Blanco, Andres; Diaz de Astarloa, Bernardo; Drenik, Andres - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1361-1403

, the Argentine economy transitioned from a low‐ to a high‐inflation regime, while collective bargaining and the minimum … low to high inflation, the monthly frequency of regular‐wage changes almost doubled, while the distribution of regular …

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New evidence, old puzzles: technology shocks and labor market dynamics

Balleer, Almut - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 3 (2012) 3, pp. 363-392

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Teacher labor markets, school vouchers, and student cognitive achievement : Evidence from Chile

Tincani, Michela M. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 1, pp. 173-216

I use administrative and survey data from Chile and a structural model to evaluate teacher policies in a market-based school system. The model accommodates equilibrium effects on parental sorting across school sectors (public or private), on the self-selection of individuals into teaching and...

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Experience and worker flows

Gorry, Aspen - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 7 (2016) 1, pp. 225-255

This paper studies the role of worker learning in a labor market where workers have incomplete information about the quality of their employment match. The amount of information about the quality of a new match depends on a worker’s past job experience. Allowing workers to learn from...

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Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms

Bowlus, Audra J.; Bonenfant, Émilien Gouin; Liu, Huju; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1447-1491

This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax files and administrative records. Linking individual tax filers to their employers (and rich administrative records on firms) beginning in 2001, it also documents the...

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Inequality, income dynamics, and worker transitions : the case of Mexico

Puggioni, Daniela; Calderón, Mariana; Cebreros Zurita, … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1669-1705

We characterize the salient features of the distribution of (log) earnings of formal workers in Mexico using social security records for the period 2005-2019. The analysis is based on a nonparametric approach and is focused primarily on the properties of the distribution of earnings changes. We...

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Earnings dynamics and its intergenerational transmission : evidence from Norway

Halvorsen, Elin; Ozkan, Serdar; Salgado, Sergio - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1707-1746

Using administrative data, we provide an extensive characterization of labor earnings dynamics in Norway. Some of our findings are as follows: (i) Norway has not been immune to the increase in top earnings inequality seen in other countries, (ii) the earnings distribution compresses in the...

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