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In this paper we investigate the economic activity of married or cohabiting female immigrants in Britain. We distinguish between two immigrant groups: foreign-born females who belong to an ethnic minority group and their husbands, and foreign-born white females and their husbands. We compare...
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This paper presents the novel results from an internationally coordinated project by the International Banking Research Network (IBRN) on the cross-border transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policy through banks. Teams from seventeen countries use confidential micro-banking...
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Modern trade theory emphasizes firm-level productivity differentials to explain the cross-border activities of non-financial firms. This study tests whether a productivity pecking order also determines international banking activities. Using a novel dataset that contains all German banks'...
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Insufficient capital buffers of banks have been identified as one main cause for the large systemic effects of the recent financial crisis. Although higher capital is no panacea, it yet features prominently in proposals for regulatory reform. But how do increased capital requirements affect...
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In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany …
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, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter … Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …
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Inflation differentials in the Euro area are mainly due to a sustained divergence of wage developments across the Euro area, and narrower differences in labour productivity growth (Alvarez et al., 2006). We investigate convergence of inflation using unit labour cost (ULC) growth and applying...
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marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …? social security contributions (SSC) on marginal employment in Germany. …
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In a small structural model we find asymmetries in the effects of monetary policy in Germany depending on whether the …
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We analyse the decline in output volatility in Germany. A lower level of variance in an autoregressive model of output … error term variance (reduced impulses). In Germany the decline output volatility is due to a decline in the persistence of … sudden break. The evolution of Germany's short-term real interest rate volatility coincides with the change of the …
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