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A Measure of Trend Wage Inflation
We extend time-series models that have so far been used to study price inflation (Stock and Watson 2016) and apply them to a micro-level data set containing worker-level... -
Unraveling the Productivity Paradox: Evidence for Germany
Despite massive digitization efforts, the German economy has experienced a marked slowdown in its productivity growth. This paper empirically analyzes three prominent... -
Robots at work? Pitfalls of industry level data (replication data)
Replication material for "Robots at work? Pitfalls of industry level data" by Karim Bekhtiar, Benjamin Bittschi and Richard Sellner. Published in Journal of Applied... -
How does the dramatic rise of CPS nonresponse impact labor market indicators?...
This is the replication package for “How does the dramatic rise of CPS nonresponse impact labor market indicators?” by Robert Bernhardt, David Munro, and Erin L. Wolcott,... -
Employment reconciliation and nowcasting (replication data)
We construct a latent employment estimate for the U.S. which both reconciles the information from separate payroll and household surveys, and incorporates the preliminary data... -
Heavy tailed, but not Zipf: Firm and establishment size in the U.S. (replicat...
These folders and files document the necessary steps to replicate all results in the paper and appendix of: “Heavy Tailed, but not Zipf: Firm and Establishment Size in the... -
Inflation Expectations and Nonlinearities in the Phillips Curve (replication ...
The files submitted are the codes and data for the Journal of Applied Econometrics article “Inflation Expectations and Nonlinearities in the Phillips Curve” by Alexander Doser,... -
The Possible Unemployment Cost of Average Inflation Below a Credible Target. ...
These are the replication files for Oraby (JCRE, 2022). The paper aims to replicate Svensson (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015). Abstract: This paper replicates... -
Macroeconomic Long-Run Effects of the German Minimum Wage when Labor Markets ...
This paper analyzes the introduction of the German minimum wage in 2015 in a structural model geared to quantitatively assess its long-run economic effects. We first employ a... -
Parity Funding of Health Care Contributions in Germany: A DSGE Perspective
Germany reintroduced parity funding of the statutory health insurance scheme in January 2019 by lowering the contribution rates for employees and raising those for employers,... -
Not Evidence for Baumol's Cost Disease
In his 2008 Journal of Health Economics paper, Jochen Hartwig claimed that Baumol’s Cost Disease (BCD) theory could explain observed increases in health care expenditures in... -
Structural changes in the labor market and the rise of early retirement in Fr...
The rise of early retirement in Europe is typically attributed to the European system of taxes and transfers. A model with an imperfectly competitive labor market allows us to...
