Essays in macroeconomics and economic geography
This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model to explain the evolution of working hours. Through the model, I find that new technologies have incre...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | CBUC, CESCA |
| Repositorio: | TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/688867 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10803/688867 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Macroeconomics Economic geography Macroeconomia Geografia econòmica 33 |
| Sumario: | This dissertation contains three essays on macroeconomics and economic geography. In the first Chapter, I study the evolution of hours worked. I develop a model of the labor market and use the model to explain the evolution of working hours. Through the model, I find that new technologies have increased the returns to working longer hours for high skilled workers, fueling inequality, and increasing total hours. In the second Chapter, I investigate the relationship between wealth and occupational mobility. First, new empirical evidence is offered showing that the level of asset holdings and occupational switching are tightly linked. Then, a model is presented and quantified; the model shows new macroeconomic implications on the relationship between risk and inequality. The third Chapter studies optimal dynamic lockdowns against COVID-19 within a commuting network. The main finding is that Spatial lockdowns achieve substantially smaller income losses than uniform lockdowns. |
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