Michelle Petersen Rendall, Female market work, tax regimes, and the rise of the service sector, In: Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, No. No. 492, 2017. (Working Paper)
US regional variation shows a positive correlation between the size of the service economy and female market hours, which is partially driven by different tax regimes. Based on this fact, this paper develops a multi-sector model to: (1) quantify the effect of different tax regimes in incentivizing woman to enter the labor force, and (2) estimate the feedback effect from women entering the labor force on the service sector size. Counterfactual results suggest that tax progressivity has a stronger effect than tax levels on married female market hours and the speed of structural transformation. In addition, married households react more to progressivity increases and single households are more sensitive to level changes. These results highlight that models ignoring tax structures (levels and progressivity) and household heterogeneity (dual versus single earning households) could lead to erroneous policy conclusions. |
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Michelle Petersen Rendall, Brain versus brawn: the realization of women's comparative advantage, In: Working paper series / Institute for Empirical Research in Economics, No. No. 491, 2017. (Working Paper)
In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over time. During the same period, workers in the US faced a considerable shift in labor demand from more physical to more intellectual skill requirements. I rationalize these observations in the context of a general equilibrium model displaying two key assumptions: (1) the demand for brain increases both within and across education groups; and (2) women have less brawn than men. Given the observed US technical change process, the model replicates (1) over half of the narrowing gender wage gap, (2) most of the narrowing employment gap, and (3) all of the reversing education gap. Crucially, the model can also account for the time-varying-path of the narrowing gender divide with an initial stagnation and a later acceleration in female wages and education rates. |
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Andreas J Beerli, Essays on Immigration, Human Capital and Technical Change, University of Zurich, Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics, 2015. (Dissertation)
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Fabrizio Zilibotti, Kjetil Storesletten, Andreas Müller, «Grexit» ist der falsche Weg : Schuldenkrise in Griechenland, In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, p. 1, 27 May 2015. (Newspaper Article)
Wie hart oder nachgiebig sollen Griechenlands Gläubiger gegenüber dem Mittelmeerstaat auftreten? In einem Gastbeitrag warnen drei Ökonomen vor einem Festhalten an starren Vereinbarungen. |
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Fabrizio Zilibotti, Pragmatismus aus Prinzip, Finanz und Wirtschaft, 2015. (Journal Article)
Wer glaubt, dass sich das Problem Griechenland nur mit Härte lösen lasse, riskiert, dass im Namen falsch verstandener ökonomischer Prinzipien grosser Schaden entsteht. |
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Fabrizio Zilibotti, Stili educativi e conseguenze sociali, Radio 24, Italia, http://www.radio24.ilsole24ore.com/programma/incontri/trasmissione-agosto-2015-223332-gSLAp3udKB?refresh_ce=1, 2015. (Scientific Publication In Electronic Form)
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Simon Alder, Chinese Roads in India: The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development, In: Center for Institutions, Policy and Culture in the Development Process, No. 209, 2014. (Working Paper)
This paper uses a general equilibrium framework as in Eaton and Kortum (2002) to estimate the contribution of transport infrastructure to regional development. I apply the analysis to
India, a country with a notoriously weak and congested transportation infrastructure. I first
analyze the development effects of a recent Indian highway project that improved connections between the four largest economic centers. I estimate the effect of this new infrastructure on income across districts using satellite data on night lights. The results show aggregate net gains from the Indian highway project, but unequal effects across regions. China has followed a different highway construction strategy and has experienced more significant convergence across regions than India. I therefore use the model to gauge the effects of
a counterfactual highway network for India that replicates the Chinese strategy of connect-
ing intermediate-sized cities. I find that this counterfactual network would have benefited
the lagging regions of India, but not the aggregate economy. I also construct additional counterfactuals and discuss their effects on economic development. |
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Fatih Guvenen, Michelle Rendall, Online Appendix to \"Women's Emancipation through Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis\", Version: 1, 2014. (Technical Report)
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Michael Wältermann, What Drives Participation in Higher Education Across Countries? International Evidence from Macro-data, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Master's Thesis)
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Arber Fazlija, Technology, Volatility, and Economic Development, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Master's Thesis)
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Adrien Bussy, Human Capital Accumulation and Political Institutions in China, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Master's Thesis)
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Filippo Pusterla, Human Capital and Job Mobility in the Swiss Labour Market, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Florian Eckert, The Role of Government Debt for Financial Intermediation, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Sebastian Ottinger, The Dynamics of Chinese Household Expenditure Patterns and the Link to the Economy’s Production Side, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Thilo Haas, The Effect of Immigration on Specialisation of the Native Work Force in Switzerland, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Bachelor's Thesis)
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Michelle Rendall, Andrew Rendall, Math Matters: Student Ability, College Majors, and Wage Inequality, Version: 1, 2013. (Technical Report)
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Michelle Rendall, Structural Change in Developing Countries: Has it Decreased Gender Inequality?, World Development, Vol. 45 (C), 2013. (Journal Article)
This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender inequality. In contrast, Brazil’s labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender inequality in both wages and labor force participation. |
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Fatih Guvenen, Michelle Rendall, Women's Emancipation Through Education: A Macroeconomic Analysis, Version: 1, 2013. (Technical Report)
In this paper, we study the role of education as insurance against a bad marriage. Historically, due to disparities in earning power and education across genders, married women often found themselves in an economically vulnerable position, and had to suffer one of two fates in a bad marriage: either they get divorced (assuming it is available) and struggle as low-income single mothers, or they remain trapped in the marriage. In both cases, education can provide a route to emancipation for women. To investigate this idea, we build and estimate an equilibrium search model with education, marriage/divorce/remarriage, and household labor supply decisions. A key feature of the model is that women bear a larger share of the divorce burden, mainly because they are more closely tied to their children relative to men. Our focus on education is motivated by the fact that divorce laws typically allow spouses to keep the future returns from their human capital upon divorce (unlike their physical assets), making education a good insurance against divorce risk. However, as women further their education, the earnings gap between spouses shrinks, leading to more unstable marriages and, in turn, further increasing demand for education. The framework generates powerful amplification mechanisms, which lead to a large rise in divorce rates and a decline in marriage rates (similar to those observed in the US data) from relatively modest exogenous driving forces. Further, in the model, women overtake men in college attainment during the 1990s, a feature of the data that has proved challenging to explain. Our counterfactual experiments indicate that the divorce law reform of the 1970s played an important role in all of these trends, explaining more than one-quarter of college attainment rate of women post-1970s and one-half of the rise in labor supply for married women. |
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Andreas Müller, Essays in dynamic macroeconomics and public finance, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Dissertation)
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Sebastian Findeisen, Essays in public finance and labor economics, University of Zurich, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology, 2013. (Dissertation)
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