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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005

Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.); … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007

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Rosen, Sherwin - 2000

contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work …

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Productivity, Wages, and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the U.S., Japan, and Europe

Gordon, Robert J. - 1986

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … primary theme of the paper is that differences between Europe and the U. S. have been substantially exaggerated in recent work …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits …

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The Term Structure of Equity Risk Premia

Bansal, Ravi - 2019

We use traded equity dividend strips from U.S., Europe, and Japan from 2004-2017 to study the slope of the term … sample, as is the case in the data sample from Europe and Japan. In sum, our analysis shows that the empirical evidence in …

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Technology Diffusion and Postwar Growth

Comin, Diego A. - 2010

In the aftermath of World War II, the world's economies exhibited very different rates of economic recovery. We provide evidence that those countries that caught up the most with the U.S. in the postwar period are those that also saw an acceleration in the speed of adoption of new technologies....

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Immigration, Wages, and Compositional Amenities

Card, David - 2009

Economists are often puzzled by the stronger public opposition to immigration than trade, since the two policies have similar effects on wages. Unlike trade, however, immigration can alter the composition of the local population, imposing potential externalities on natives. While previous...

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Unemployment vs. Mismatch of Talents : Reconsidering Unemployment Benefits

Marimon, Ramon - 1997

predictions of our simple model are consistent with the contrasting performance of the labor market in Europe and US in terms of … the economy with unemployment insurance (Europe). As a result, unemployment doubles in this economy. In the laissez …

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The Economic Consequences of Parental Leave Mandates : Lessons from Europe

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 1996

This study investigates the economic consequences of parental leave mandates using data for 16 European countries over the 1969 through 1988 period. Since women use virtually all of the family leave in most nations, men constitute a reasonable comparison group and the natural experiment in most...

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Technology, Unemployment, and Relative Wages in a Global Economy

Davis, Donald R. - 1996

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …

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Information, Trading and Stock Returns : Lessons from Dually-Listed Securities

Chan, K.C. - 1994

This paper compares the intra-day patterns on the NYSE and AMEX of volatility, trading volume and bid-ask spreads for European dually- listed stocks, Japanese dually-listed stocks also listed in London, and Japanese dually-listed stocks not listed in London with American stocks of comparable...

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