Author/Editor: Phillip Swagel, Steven Vincent Dunaway, Martin David Kaufman.

Release Date:May, 2003

Differences in per capita output across Canadian provinces have narrowed less than disparities in per capita income in past decades. Using a panel regression framework, this paper studies the more...

Author/Editor: Phillip Swagel, Efraim Sadka, Assaf Razin.

Release Date:April, 2002

Data for the United States and countries in Western Europe indicate a negative correlation between the dependency ratio and both labor tax rates and the generosity of social transfers, after more...

Author/Editor: Prakash Loungani, Phillip Swagel.

Release Date:December, 2001

This paper develops stylized facts about the inflation process in developing countries, focusing particularly on the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the sources of inflation. Using more...

Author/Editor: Matthew J Slaughter, Phillip Swagel.

Release Date:September, 1997

Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20 years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to more...

Author/Editor: Phillip Swagel, Matthew J Slaughter.

Release Date:April, 1997

This paper examines the effect of globalization on labor markets in the advanced economies, focusing particularly on the claim that increased economic integration has widened the gap between the more...

Author/Editor: Phillip Swagel.

Release Date:December, 1996

This paper examines the supposed welfare gains from strategic trade and industrial policies in the U.S. steel industry. Strategic policies to capture labor rents lead to an endogenous response which more...