Does European Unemployment Prop Up American Wages? National Labor Markets and Global Trade: Comment

By Jürgen Meckl

American Economic Review, December 2006

The WTO as a Mechanism for Securing Market Access Property Rights: Implications for Global Labor and Environmental Issues

[Symposium: Trade, Labor and the Environment]

By Kyle Bagwell and Robert W. Staiger

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2001

Can the World Trade Organization (WTO) contribute to the attainment of sound labor and environmental policies? An answer requires an understanding of WTO rules. We argue that the purpose of WTO rules is to create a negotiating forum where governments can ...

Sequential Kidney Exchange

By Lawrence M. Ausubel and Thayer Morrill

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, August 2014

The traditional literature on kidney exchange assumes that all components of the exchange must occur simultaneously. Unfortunately, the number of operating rooms required for concurrent surgeries poses a significant constraint on the beneficial exchanges ...

Climate, Grapevine Phenology, Wine Production, and Prices: Pauillac (1800-2009)

By Jean-Michel Chevet, Sébastien Lecocq, and Michael Visser

American Economic Review, May 2011

This paper analyzes 19th and 20th century data from a well-known château in Bordeaux. The dataset includes information on weather conditions, starting dates of three phenological stages of grapevine, prices, and yields. We discuss how these variable...

A Reconsideration of the Twentieth Century

By Robert A. Mundell

American Economic Review, June 2000

A Welfare Analysis of Arbitration

By Wojciech Olszewski

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, February 2011

The paper compares conventional and final-offer arbitration. One party is supposed to make a payment to another party, whose amount depends on a state. Under one scenario, parties obtain signals about the state, which cannot be recognized by the opponents...

Asset Markets: How They Are Affected by Tournament Incentives for Individuals

By Duncan James and R. Mark Isaac

American Economic Review, September 2000

The Link from Graduate Education in Economics to the Labor Market

By W. Lee Hansen

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1999

Against the background of the evidence presented by John Siegfried and Wendy Stock in this issue on labor market outcomes for new economics Ph.D. recipients, this paper discusses the links between the Ph.D. labor market and graduate education

Capital Reallocation and Growth

By Janice Eberly and Neng Wang

American Economic Review, May 2009

Data Watch: The Redesigned Current Population Survey

By Anne E. Polivka

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 1996

The Current Population Survey (CPS), a national survey of 50,000 households, is a major source of information about the American labor market. In January 1994, the CPS underwent a major redesign both in the wording of the questionnaire and the methodology...

Does Aid Affect Governance?

By Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian

American Economic Review, May 2007

Indicators for Dating Business Cycles: Cross-History Selection and Comparisons

By James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson

American Economic Review, May 2010

Income Distribution in Urban China during the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization

By Azizur Rahman Khan, Keith Griffin, and Carl Riskin

American Economic Review, May 1999

Judging Experimental Evidence on Dynamic Inconsistency

By Charles Sprenger

American Economic Review, May 2015

This article briefly summarizes and judges recent experimental developments exploring the predictions of dynamically inconsistent models. An opinion is provided as to how the literature may evolve given these recent advances.

Commitment Mechanisms and Compliance with Health-Protecting Behavior: Preliminary Evidence from Orissa, India

By Alessandro Tarozzi, Aprajit Mahajan, Joanne Yoong, and Brian Blackburn

American Economic Review, May 2009

Firm-Size Wage Differentials in Switzerland: Evidence from Job-Changers

By Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimuller

American Economic Review, May 1999

Demographics and the Politics of Capital Taxation in a Life-Cycle Economy

By Xavier Mateos-Planas

American Economic Review, March 2010

This article studies the effects of demographics on the mix of tax rates on labor and capital. It uses a quantitative general-equilibrium, overlapping-generations model where tax rates are voted without past commitments in every period and characterize...

Earnings Inequality and the Intersectionality of Gender and Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Tanzanian Manufacturing

By Juliet U. Elu and Linda Loubert

American Economic Review, May 2013

This paper estimates quantile earnings functions with data from the 2004 Tanzanian Household Worker Survey to determine if ethnicity and gender--being female--matters per se and across the distribution of earnings. We find that in the Tanzanian manufactur...

Priced and Unpriced Online Markets

[Symposium: Internet Economics]

By Benjamin Edelman

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2009

Some online resources are free and others are not -- but it can be hard to predict which resources are in which category. In some cases, users are charged for things such as web-based e-mail, wireless Internet access, and software, while in other cases, t...

The Power of Focal Points Is Limited: Even Minute Payoff Asymmetry May Yield Large Coordination Failures

By Vincent P. Crawford, Uri Gneezy, and Yuval Rottenstreich

American Economic Review, September 2008

Since Schelling, it has often been assumed that players make use of salient decision labels to achieve coordination. Consistent with previous work, we find that given equal payoffs, salient labels yield frequent coordination. However, given even minute...