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Old Europe ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes
Boersch-Supan, Axel H. - 2010
This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …
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Flexibility and Job Creation : Lessons for Germany
Heckman, James J. - 2002
This paper examines the performance of the German economy and the role of the regulation and welfare state policies in affecting its performance. While the German economy is still strong, incentives in place are likely to impair future German competitiveness and productivity
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469516
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Policy Transferability and Hysteresis : Daily and Weekly Hours in the BRD and the US
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1994
U.S. and Germany …
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C. - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461471
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Market Reforms in the Time of Imbalance
Cacciatore, Matteo - 2016
implementation (or of a credible commitment to it) in shaping the dynamic effects of such policies. Product market reform is modeled …
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Asymmetric Information and Remittances : Evidence from Matched Administrative Data
Joseph, Thomas - 2015
Using new data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how fluctuations in migrants' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks...
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Bringing Them In or Pushing Them Out? The Labor Market Effects of Pro-cyclical Unemployment Assistance Changes
Domènech-Arumí, Gerard; Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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-in-differences design, we document that...
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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453235
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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB
Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013
Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459674
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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology
Dranove, David - 2012
We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...
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