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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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COVID-19 Time-varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide : An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper estimates time-varying COVID-19 reproduction numbers worldwide solely based on the number of reported infected cases, allowing for under-reporting. Estimation is based on a moment condition that can be derived from an agent-based stochastic network model of COVID-19 transmission. The...

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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 Heights of Europeans Since 1750 : A New Source For European Economic History

Floud, Roderick - 1984

Economic and social historians have traditionally been concerned to measure changes in the income and welfare of populations in the past.Until recently, however, they have not recognized that anthropometric data, such as evidence on the average height achieved by a population at a particular...

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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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Underemployment in the US and Europe

Bell, David N.F. - 2018

Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...

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Long-term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the US and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Eliminating the Pass-Through : Towards FDI Statistics that Better Capture the Financial and Economic Linkages between Countries

Borga, Maria - 2018

FDI plays a central role in managing global production networks, but FDI statistics also reflect other factors, including tax avoidance, that make it difficult to differentiate between FDI for "long-term" investments that serves as a source of growth and FDI that is purely financial and has...

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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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