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Article: Why doesn't the United States have a European-style ...
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... explanations for these differences between the United States and Europe. Economic explanations ... differences. Before-tax income in the United States has both a higher variance and a more ... appears to be lower in Europe than in the United States. However, there is some possibility ...

Article: Explaining a productive decade.(role of information technology ...
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  March 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ...PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE United States rose sharply in the mid- 1990s, after a quarter century of sluggish gains. That pickup was widely documented, and a relatively ...

Article: The sources and sustainability of China's economic growth.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... largest in the world, behind only the United States at $12.5 trillion, Japan at $4 ... nearly three quarters that of the United States. It has been suggested that, at current ... PPP terms could exceed that of the United States as early as 2010. (1) When China ...

Article: Does Immigration Grease the Wheels of the Labor ...
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... or regions. Although workers in the United States are quite mobile, particularly when ... immigrant and native workers in the United States. The evidence shows that interstate ... a result, immigrant flows into the United States may play an important role in improving ...

Article: Is the U.S. current account deficit sustainable? If not, how ...
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  March 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... S. current account deficit and the United States' growing net foreign indebtedness ... purchases of Treasury securities, the United States has become extremely vulnerable to ... sources of political tension between the United States and Europe. Arguing that "[U]nilateralism ...

Article: Is the U.S. Current Account Deficit Sustainable? Will It Be ...
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... as those of recent years.(2) The United States is reckoned, by global standards ... Argentina had larger deficits than the United States relative to GDP, at 8.0 percent ... economy, it would be surprising if the United States were not receiving a substantial amount ...

Article: Financial crash, commodity prices, and global imbalances.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... led to large capital flows toward the United States and to the creation of asset bubbles ... petrodollars seeking financial assets in the United States, which became a source of stability ... led to large capital flows toward the United States and to the creation of asset bubbles ...