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Do Credit Market Shocks affect the Real Economy? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Great Recession and ‘Normal’ Economic Times

Greenstone, Michael - 2014

We estimate the effect of the reduction in credit supply that followed the 2008 financial crisis on the real economy. We predict county lending shocks using variation in pre-crisis bank market shares and estimated bank supply-shifts. Counties with negative predicted shocks experienced declines...

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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India

Martin, Leslie A. - 2014

An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...

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Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers

Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016

per job of $30,000 per year. A complementary IV estimation strategy yields similar estimates. We also explore the …

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets, and the Real Economy

Keys, Benjamin J. - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes during the housing crisis. We use proprietary loan-level panel data matched to consumer credit records using borrowers' Social Security numbers, which allows for accurate...

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert - 2008

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

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The Employer Penalty, Voluntary Compliance, and the Size Distribution of Firms : Evidence from a Survey of Small Businesses

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2017

A new survey of 745 small businesses shows little change in the size distribution of businesses between 2012 and 2016, except among businesses with 40-74 employees, in a way that is closely related to whether they offer health insurance coverage. Using measures of both size and voluntary...

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The Effects of Minimum Wages Throughout the Wage Distribution

Neumark, David - 2000

This paper provides evidence on a wide set of margins along which labor markets can adjust in response to increases in the minimum wage, including wages, hours, employment, and ultimately labor income, representing the central margins of adjustment that impact the economic well-being of workers...

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A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment

Neumark, David - 1999

We estimate the employment effects of changes in national minimum wages using a pooled cross-section time-series data set comprising sixteen OECD countries for the period 1975-1997. We pay particular attention to the impact of cross-country differences in minimum wage systems and in other labor...

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Time-Series Evidence of the Effect of the Minimum Wage on Youth Employment and Unemployment

Brown, Charles - 1981

While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous studies report results of more than one specification, the causes of differences in estimated...

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