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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...
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Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations
Schwandt, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884277
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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762379
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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558933
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Flexibility at the Margin and Labor Market Volatility in OECD Countries
Sala, Hector; Silva, José I.; Toledo, Manuel E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …
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Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
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From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Campos, Nauro F; Karanasos, Menelaos G.; Tan, Bin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
individual effects on economic growth and volatility using the power-ARCH framework with annual data since the 1890s. The results …
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The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …
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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
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Growth, Volatility and Political Instability: Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896-2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …
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