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Cross Country Evidence on Consumption Persistence
Belbute, José; Caleiro, António - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
, Norway and United Kingdom is the main focus of the paper. Using a non-parametric methodology applied to annual data it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498480
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Capital flight, saving rate and the golden rule level of capital: policy recommendations for Latin America countries
Joaquin, Vespignani L - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper seeks to analyse the determinants of capital flight in selected Latin American countries throughout the 1990s, and gives some insights into what economic policies would be adequate under capital flight conditions. Finding, empirically, the saving rate to be a new determinant of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109797
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Real Wage Cyclicality in Germany and the UK: New Results Using Panel Data
Peng, Fei; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703499
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Piketty against Piketty: the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in United Kingdom and Germany since XIX century confirmed by Piketty´s data
Maito, Esteban Ezequiel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In Capital in 21st century, Thomas Piketty criticizes Marxian theory and the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in the long term. His main argument, asserted by other authors since decades, is related to the capacity of increases in productivity to counterweight the tendency. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111265
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
Bell, David N.F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371916
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Gerechtigkeit und Verteilungswirkungen der Gesundheitsreform 2007
Honekamp, Ivonne; Rehmann, Adelheid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Discussions of health care reforms are always tightly connected with the question of ensuring equity in financing health care. This paper analyses the German health care reform 2007 and its effect on the equity of health care financing. To do this Rawls’ and Nozick’s perceptions of justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595624
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Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock
Balsvik, Ragnhild; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the labor force altogether. We find no evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884256
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The Economics of Reindeer Herding: Saami Entrepreneurship between Cyclical Sustainability and the Powers of State and Oligopolies.
Reinert, Erik S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper attempts to explain the drastic fall in income experienced by Saami reindeer herders in Northern Norway … reindeer meat, a traditional luxury product in Norway. This paper shows that a review of the literature is supported by …, mainly: cyclical climatic variation in Northern Norway; a system with fixed prices, independent of the variations in supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260854
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Institutional Clash and Financial Fragility. An Evolutionary Model of Banking Crises
Knutsen, Sverre; Sjögren, Hans - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836657
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Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study
Galloway, Taryn Ann; Gustafsson, Björn; Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004563