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Assistant Chief Economist
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Education
Areas of Interest
Introducing Consumer Durable Digital Services into the BEA Digital Economy Satellite Account (PDF)
Benjamin R. Bridgman , Tina Highfill , and Jon D. Samuels
Consumption Zones (PDF)
Andrea Batch , Benjamin R. Bridgman , Abe C. Dunn , and Mahsa Gholizadeh
Developed economies experienced a rise and fall in labor share (LS) in the postwar period. We present a novel explanation of these trends – public enterprise employment. We document a link between it and both LS and wage compression in 15 developed nations. We then build a model that shows how overstaffing public enterprises can increase LS and reduce wage inequality. Overstaffing directly increases public enterprise LS and indirectly increases private sector LS by reducing available labor. We examine several public enterprise reforms. Consistent with the model’s predictions, reforms reduce public enterprise LS permanently and private sector LS temporarily.
Benjamin R. Bridgman and Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy
Economic Inquiry
Is Productivity on Vacation? The Impact of the Digital Economy on the Value of …
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Is Labor's Loss Capital's Gain? Gross versus Net Labor Shares
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production around the W…
Benjamin R. Bridgman , Georg Duernecker , and Berthold Herrendorf
Market Entry Mode: Evidence from the Golden Age of Hollywood
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Home Productivity
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Structural Transformation, Marketization, and Household Production around the World (PDF)
Benjamin R. Bridgman , Georg Duernecker , and Berthold Herrendorf
Is Labor's Loss Capital's Gain? Gross versus Net Labor Shares (PDF)
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Do Intangible Assets Explain High U.S. Foreign Investment Returns?
Benjamin R. Bridgman
International Supply Chains and the Volatility of Trade
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Market Entry and Trade Weighted Import Costs
Benjamin R. Bridgman
The Rise of Vertical Specialization Trade
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Heterogeneous Car Buyers: A Stylized Fact
Benjamin R. Bridgman , Ana M. Aizcorbe , and Jeremy J. Nalewaik
International Supply Chains and the Volatility of Trade (PDF)
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Energy Prices and the Expansion of World Trade
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Do Intangible Assets Explain High U.S. Foreign Direct Investment Returns? (PDF)
Benjamin R. Bridgman
Vested Interests and Technology Adoption
Benjamin R. Bridgman