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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, Hashem; Rebucci, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225765
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812034
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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession
Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … weakened considerably during the recent recession. In fact, majority of our estimates indicate that the relationship has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814470
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
(across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695870
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Immigrants' Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard …. Immigrants’ labor market outcomes began deteriorating even before the recession was officially underway, largely as a result of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765238
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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
Jetter, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959641
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David; Paci, Pierella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294835
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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business C...
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762085
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The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
Cawley, John; Moriya, Asako S.; Simon, Kosali - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of …, lost health insurance due to a higher unemployment rate alone during the 2007-09 recession. We conclude with a discussion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371910
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Inequality in Individual Mortality and Economic Conditions Earlier in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten; López, Marta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class … inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703315