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1by Haefke, Christian Sonntag, Marcus van Rens, Thijs Published in Journal of monetary economics (01.11.2013)“...Recent research in macroeconomics emphasizes the role of wage rigidity in accounting for the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. We use worker-level data...”
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2“...Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased toward skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We...”
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3“...Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for...”
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4“...Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present...”
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5“...In many countries, student grants, tuition fees, and subsidized loans depend on parental income. This paper examines the efficiency and distributional effects...”
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6“...Abstract We document two changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: the procyclicality of labour productivity vanished, and the relative volatility of...”
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8“...•The common assumption that all workers are equally employable is unrealistic.•Relaxing the assumption maintains positive predictions but changes welfare...”
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10by Herz, Benedikt van Rens, Thijs Published in Journal of the European Economic Association (01.08.2020)“...Abstract We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the United States over the past three and a half decades. We propose an accounting framework that...”
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11“...Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We...”
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13“...Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change...”
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15by Thijs van Rens Published in FT.com (13.12.2020)“...The distinct age-risk pattern of the virus, which was clear from the earliest Chinese data, led economists including Daron Acemoglu at the Massachusetts...”
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16“...Experiences during the Great Recession support the view that the UK labor market is relatively flexible. Unemployment rose less and recovered faster than in...”
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18by van Rens, Thijs Published in Journal of monetary economics (01.01.2012)“...Using new quarterly data for hours worked in OECD countries, Ohanian and Raffo (2011) argue that in many OECD countries, particularly in Europe, hours per...”
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19“...Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for skills were better matched. As a result,...”