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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2013
This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe … US, there is some evidence that both time effect and modeling choices affect estimates for Europe. …
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2012
substitution in their household production in Europe. …
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The Roles of Monetary Policy in the Process of Economic Reform in Eastern Europe
Bofinger, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
The first part of the paper analyzes the inflationary risks associated with price liberalization, the welfare costs of inflation and the difficulties of East European central banks in pursuing non-inflationary policies. The main obstacles are the low credibility of stabilization policies and a...
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A Multilateral Payments Union for Eastern Europe?
Bofinger, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
The paper analyzes the role of a multilateral payments union (PU) between East European countries (EEPU) as an intermediate solution in the process to full convertibility. After a description of the main functions of a PU, which is based on the historical model of the European Payments Union, it...
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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study
Brañas-Garza, Pablo; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’. A battery of explanatory variables (country-specific ones, personal attributes and marriage variables)...
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while … Europe it has mainly the function of a buffer and of a “balm for the soul”. There is an extensive literature on the ‘bridge …
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