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Neumeier, Florian - 2016

business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …

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Labour market institutions and income inequality

Checchi, Daniele (contributor); … - 2008

. Institutions that decrease inequality are, however, associated with higher unemployment, and our analysis allows us to quantify the …

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The U.S. Software Industry as an Engine for Economic Growth and Employment

Shapiro, Robert J. - 2015

This study is part of a long line of analyses in assessing the direct and indirect economic benefits of information and communications technologies, focused on the software industry rather than the overall ICT sector. To assess the software industry's general economic impact, we use the...

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The equilibrium set of economies with a continuous consumption space

Covarrubias, Enrique - 2010

We study global properties of the equilibrium set of economies with a continuous consumption space. This framework is important in intertemporal allocation problems (continuous or infinite time), financial markets with uncertainty (continuous states of nature) and commodity differentiation. We...

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Aggregate impacts of recent US natural gas trends

Arora, Vipin - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 14 (2014) 1, pp. 419-443

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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …

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Measuring heterogeneity in job finding rates among the nonemployed using labor force status histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...

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The impact of the age distribution on unemployment : evidence from US states

Fallick, Bruce; Foote, Christopher L. - 2022 - This version: October 2022

Economists have studied the potential effects of shifts in the age distribution on the unemployment rate for more than … effects on age-specific unemployment rates. This paper uses state-level data to revisit the influence of the age distribution … on unemployment in the United States. We examine demographic effects across the entire age distribution rather than just …

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Income thresholds and income classes

D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Mulière, Pietro; Secchi, Piercesare - 2003

This paper proposes a method for detecting income classes based on the change-point problem. There is an increasing demand for such a method in the literature. Computation of polarization indices requires a pre-grouping of the incomes. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices...

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Cold progression and its effects on income distribution

Heer, Burkhard; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2003

We present new empirical evidence for the US economy that inflation reduces the inequality of the earnings distribution. The main mechanism emphasized in this paper is the tax income bracket effect. Governments only adjust the nominal income tax brackets slowly to a rise in prices, typically...

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