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and affects the overall effectiveness of forward guidance. We find that the central banks of the U.S., the U.K., Germany …
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A brief historical overview of the household equipment revolution and the women who transformed the home in Germany and …
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, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …
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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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, model parameters, the base scenario, and key simulation results comparing the USA to Germany, France, and Spain. …
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2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections …Both the US and Germany are expected to undergo demographic aging, but their demographic fundamentals differ starkly … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …
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By age 77 a plurality of women in wealthy Western societies are widows. Comparing older (aged 70+) married women to widows in the American Time Use Survey 2003-18 and linking the data to the Current Population Survey allow inferring the short- and longer-term effects of an arguably exogenous...
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We measure extensive-margin labor supply (employment) preferences in two representative surveys of the U.S. and German populations. We elicit reservation raises: the percent wage change that renders a given individual indifferent between employment and nonemployment. It is equal to her...
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …
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, Germany, and Italian participating firms, I first document that these companies claimed between 5 and 10% yearly productivity …
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