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We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between … domestic wages to real exchange rate is 0.1 after a year for countries with high barriers to external labor mobility, but about …
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of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining inequalities and wages convergence over time emerge from comparison …
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We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these...
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Recent evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in time, risk, and social preferences across and within populations; yet little is known about the dynamics of preference heterogeneity across generations. We apply a novel identification strategy based on dyadic differences in preferences using...
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Recent evidence shows substantial heterogeneity in time, risk, and social preferences across and within populations; yet little is known about the dynamics of preference heterogeneity across generations. We apply a novel identification strategy based on dyadic differences in preferences using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422508
results are robust to changes in measurement, model specification and estimation methods. In order to account for the positive … industry. Using an international panel of banks, we show that well-capitalized banks pay higher wages to their employees. Our …-capitalized banks have incentives to pay higher wages to induce monitoring. Such monitoring rents of employees at capitalized banks are …
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-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of demographic uncertainty in a multi-regional general equilibrium, overlapping generations model (INGENUE 2). Specifically, we will consider the level of uncertainty in each of the ten major regions of the world, and their correlation across regions. In...
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In the present paper an empirical analysis will point out that ageing causes a decline on economic growth as claimed by Martins et al., (2005). The sample covers all western world and the United States. Data are taken from Eurostat and OECD. The elaboration of these panel data is made feasible...
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In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women´s rights to a destination with a relatively high women´s rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of...
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