To study the drivers of the employment reallocation across sectors and occupations between 1960 and 2010 in the US we propose a model where technology evolves at the sector-occupation cell level. This framework allows us to quantify the bias of technology across sectors and across occupations....

The neoclassical growth model predicts large capital flows towards fast-growing emerging countries. We show that incorporating fertility and longevity into a lifecycle model of savings changes the standard predictions when countries differ in their ability to borrow inter-temporally and across...

Life-cycle wage growth rates vary significantly across countries. In this paper, we examine the role of the local distribution of firm productivity in shaping life-cycle wage profiles by introducing a random search model that disentangles the effects of firm productivity distribution, on-the-job...