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When Credit Dries Up: Job Losses in the Great Recession
Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked differences in banks' health at the onset of the Great Recession. Several weak banks were rescued by the State and they reduced credit more than other banks. We compare...
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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries
Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
time effects. All countries display a massive reallocation of resources, with the entry and exit of many firms in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703134
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"
Fossen, Frank M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
experiment, based on representative household panel data. The results indicate that the insurance effect of a more forgiving …
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
Goolsbee, Austan D.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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Testing Weak Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper considers testing the hypothesis that errors in a panel data model are weakly cross sectionally dependent … the range [0, 1/4], for all combinations of N and T, and irrespective of whether the panel contains lagged values of the …
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Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?
Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...
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Do Business Visits Cause Productivity Growth?
Tani, Massimiliano; Joyeux, Roselyne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The production and diffusion of knowledge have increasingly been seen as potential causes of the observed international differences in total factor productivity and, in turn, as possible sources of economic growth. This paper presents the results of a causality study between business visits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884105
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Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un …-versa, long after the 'children' have left home. Data come from 25 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP, 1984 …-2008). SOEP is the only panel survey worldwide in which data on life satisfaction have been obtained from parents and an adequate …
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Identifying Regional Labor Demand Shocks Using Sign Restrictions
Juessen, Falko; Linnemann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We propose using sign restrictions to identify regional labor demand shocks in a panel VAR of US federal states …
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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...
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