The coexistence of barriers to labor mobility with large output-per-worker disparities driven by Total Factor Productivity (TFP) differences suggests that the world's labor force is misallocated across countries. We investigate the extent and consequences of this potential misallocation in the...

This dissertation consists of three essays in process improvement and assortment planning. In the first essay, we study firm's strategies on balancing two conflicting manufacturing process improvement activities: learning and process change. Learning deepens the firm's knowledge of the...

The traditional education system in Qing China has been widely debated over the past decades. Some have argued it was efficient and furthered economic growth, while others have stressed its inefficient nature, which led to the introduction of the modern education system in the closing decades of...

In recent decades, national income has become increasingly important as a measure of a nation’s economic health. In this study, we used a wide array of primary and secondary sources to arrive at values of the Chinese per capita gross domestic product (GDP) during the period of 1661–1933. We...

ABSTRACTCHAPTER 1: A Structural Empirical Model of R&D Investment, Firm Heterogeneity, and Industry EvolutionThis paper develops and estimates a structural model of R&D investment and productivity evolution of manufacturing plants in the Korean electric motor industry from 1991 to 1996....

In this dissertation we study several key issues faced by firms while introducing new products to market. The first essay looks at product rollovers: introduction of a new product generation while phasing out the old one. We study the strategic decision of dual vs. single roll jointly with...

¿Puede el Gobierno español generar más ingresos fiscales haciendo más progresivo el Impuesto sobre la Renta de las Personas Físicas? Para responder a esta pregunta, construimos una economía de ciclo vital con riesgo sobre la productividad laboral no asegurable y oferta laboral endógena....

Este estudio utiliza datos de dos encuestas de individuos en Estados Unidos, el Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) y el Medical Expenses Panel Survey (MEPS), para analizar posibles diferencias en el estado de salud entre las personas casadas y las solteras, ambas en edad de trabajar. Cuando...

Este artículo utiliza datos administrativos sobre declaraciones del IRPF con objeto de caracterizar la distribución de la renta antes y después de impuestos, la distribución de la cuota del impuesto y la distribución de los beneficios fiscales, tanto para los individuos como para los...

Algunos trabajadores entran en el mercado laboral debido a la pérdida de empleo de sus cónyuges. Este fenómeno se denomina «efecto del trabajador añadido» (AWE, por las siglas en inglés, Added Worker Effect). En este trabajo proponemos una nueva metodología para calcular el AWE, que...