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capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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public capital and expected fiscal adjustments to deficit-financed spending. Implementation delays can produce small or even … matter both quantitatively and qualitatively for long-run growth effects. When public capital is insufficiently productive …
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This paper presents a framework for quantitatively evaluating the macroeconomic effects of corporate restructuring and applies it to Japan. Using firm-level financial statement data, it estimates total factor productivity (TFP) of individual Japanese firms. Given the estimated distribution of...
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of the population. This paper develops a model of intra-and inter-generational transfers and human capital formation …
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relates average unemployment to average wage inflation; the curve is virtually vertical for high inflation rates but becomes …, at low inflation. Fourth, when inflation decreases, volatility of unemployment increases whereas the volatility of … inflation decreases: this implies a long-run trade-off also between the volatility of unemployment and that of wage inflation. …
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Work absence is an important part of the individual decision on actual working hours. This paper focuses on sickness absence in Europe and develops a stylized model where absence is part of the labor-leisure decision made by workers and the production decision made by profit-maximizing firms,...
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-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset provides an interesting … macroeconomic factors--including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system--as well as individual … unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German tax and transfer system for the …
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We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate’s long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious ‘buffer stock’ model of optimal...
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unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …
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Heightened uncertainty since the onset of the Great Recession has materially increased saving rates, contributing to lower consumption and GDP growth. Consistent with a model of precautionary savings in the face of uncertainty, we find for a panel of advanced economies that greater labor income...
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