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Joseph Zeira

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Technology and Labor Regulations: Theory and Evidence

2015

This paper shows that different labor market policies can lead to differences in technology across sectors in a model of labor saving technologies. Labor market regulations reduce the skill premium and as a result, if technologies are labor saving, countries with more stringent labor regulation, which bind more for low skilled workers, become less technolog- ically advanced in their high skill sectors, but more technologically advanced in their low skill sectors. We then present data on capital-output ratios, on estimated productivity levels and on patent creation, which tend to support the predictions of our model.

Economics and EconometricsLabour economicsComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSIONSecondary labor market05 social sciencesTechnology choicejel:J50Technology choice Cost of labor Skill premium Labor regulationsHigh skilljel:J31Labor savingComputingMilieux_GENERAL0502 economics and businessjel:O33Economics050207 economicsSettore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaProductivityLow skilled050205 econometrics
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CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE: A NEW APPROACH, NEW DATA, AND NEW RESULTS

2020

Recently, Penn World Tables include new data that enable calculation of total factor productivity in addition to output for a large set of countries. We use these new data to examine convergence and divergence across countries by applying a new approach, which differentiates between the dynamics of output and of productivity. Our empirical results lead to two main new contributions to the literature. The first is on the interpretation of “β-convergence” in “growth regressions.” It means that output per worker in each country converges to productivity but does not imply convergence across countries, since productivity tends to diverge from the global frontier. The second contribution is to t…

Economics and EconometricsEconomic Growth Divergence Convergence Global Frontier Technology Adoption0502 economics and business05 social sciencesEconomicsApplied mathematicsConvergence (relationship)050207 economicsSettore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaDivergence (statistics)050205 econometrics Macroeconomic Dynamics
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The Effects of Fiscal Redistribution

2016

Every discussion on income distribution and inequality distinguishes between market income, namely income before tax and without transfers, and disposable, or net income, which is after tax and including transfers. Hence, taxation and transfers create a redistribution of income. This redistribution is usually progressive, as direct taxes and subsidies are progressive, and thus it is supposed to reduce inequality, in the transition from market income to disposable income. This paper focuses on measuring the effect of fiscal policy in income redistribution and in reducing inequality. It also examines which type of fiscal policy is most strongly related to the redistribution of income, are the…

Income distributionNet incomeTransfer paymentDirect taxEconomicsPublic expenditureRedistribution (cultural anthropology)Monetary economicsRedistribution of income and wealthFiscal policy
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The Effects of Fiscal Redistribution

2016

Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia PoliticaInequality public policy redistribution
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