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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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. 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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This paper uses a unique dataset to study how firms managed liquidity during the financial crisis. Our analysis provides new insights on the interactions between internal liquidity, external funds, and real corporate decisions, such as investment and employment. We first describe how companies...
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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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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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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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the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been …
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stimulus to austerity in Europe was quite abrupt. The difference in fiscal stance helps explain the difference in the post …
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There are some striking similarities between the pre 1914 gold standard and EMU today. Both arrangements are based on fixed exchange rates, monetary and fiscal orthodoxy. Each regime gave easy access by financially underdeveloped peripheral countries to capital from the core countries. But the...
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