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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2005
Frankel, Jeffrey A. (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2007
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A Century of Missing Trade?
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2001
In contemporary data, the measured factor content of trade is far smaller than its predicted magnitude in the pure Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek framework, the so-called 'missing trade' mystery. We wonder if this problem has been there from the beginning: that is, we ask if the Heckscher-Ohlin theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470423
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Labor Markets in Professional Sports
Rosen, Sherwin - 2000
contemporary labor issues in North America and Europe, from reserve rules and free agency, high levels of player pay and work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471202
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472779
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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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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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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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