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We exploit an unanticipated labor market reform in 2012 Spain to estimate the effects of pro-cyclical changes in long …-term unemployment assistance (UA). The reform raised the minimum age to receive unlimited-duration UA from 52 to 55. Using a difference …
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and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
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In the early 1970s, hours worked per working-age person in Spain were higher than in the United States. Starting in … 1975, however, hours worked in Spain fell by 40 percent. We find that 80 percent of the decline in hours worked can be … decrease in hours in 1975-1986 and the large increase in hours in 1994-2007. The lack of productivity growth in Spain during …
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pilot project implemented for Finland, Italy, Portugal, the Slovak Republic and Spain, the report shows that SMEs in all …
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. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate …
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innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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in Spain to document the existence of a robust, within-firm negative causal relationship between demand-driven changes in … structurally estimated version of this model, we conclude that the firm-level responses to the slump in domestic demand in Spain …
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