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In the United States, the employment rate is nearly flat across wealth quintiles with the exception of the first … quintile. Correlations between wealth and employment are close to zero or moderately positive. However, incomplete markets … employment. Using a fairly standard incomplete markets model calibrated to match the distribution of wealth, I find that …
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employment relationships. This paper studies whether short-time work can save jobs through stabilizing aggregate demand in …
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We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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with results from the research on the German employment performance in the Great Recession which attributed part of the … employment success to the widespread use of instruments of internal flexibility. Our results confirm that generally, the …
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. Adjusting for selection, I then investigate the employment effects of STW in the pandemic and find 3-4% higher employment levels …
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Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …
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Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...
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Estimates of Frisch labor-supply elasticities are biased in the presence of borrowing constraints. We show that this estimation bias is less pronounced for secondary than for primary earners. The reason is that, in households with two earners and joint borrowing constraints, wage-rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543948
This paper explores the effects of inheritances on the saving of recipients. Information on inheritances and heirs are obtained from estate tax records of decedents which are linked to the income tax records of beneficiaries. The observed pattern of wealth mobility within less than two years of...
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The Frisch elasticity of labor supply can be estimated by regressing hours worked on the hourly wage rate, controlling for consumption of the individual worker. However, most household panel surveys contain consumption information only at the household level. We show that proxying individual...
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