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Wellbeing, Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
variables while it is uncorrelated with life satisfaction. The unemployment rate and the CPI reduce both. We analyze data for 29 … European countries to predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead using individuals' fears of unemployment in the … presence of country and year fixed effects and lagged unemployment. We also use firms' expectations of future employment, which …
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Skill Depreciation during Unemployment : Evidence from Panel Data
Cohen, Jonathan P.; Johnston, Andrew; Lindner, Attila - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
workers are unemployed. Both the reemployment hazard rate and reemployment earnings steadily fall with unemployment duration …
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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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The Wage Curve After the Great Recession
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States is 'tight' because unemployment rates are low. They …, prior to that, real wages had been stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage …
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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil
Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
positive effects of urbanization depend on the skilled and unskilled working together, a form of integration that is more …
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Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
Carvalho, Jean-Paul; Bergeron, Augustin; Henrich, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the evolution of belief systems that suppress productive effort. These include concerns about the envy of others, beliefs in the importance of luck for success, disdain for competitive effort, and traditional beliefs in witchcraft. We show that such demotivating beliefs can evolve when...
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A North-South Model of Structural Change and Growth
Aristizábal-Ramirez, Maria; Leahy, John Vincent; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on growth, structural transformation, and investment rates in a large sample of countries. We observe a hump-shaped relationship between a country's investment rate and its level of development, both within countries over time and...
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The Economics of Women's Rights
Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462666
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The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2000
The paper examines whether there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy, or the share of the largest metro area in national urban population. Is there reason to believe many countries have excessive primacy and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471273
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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron - 2009
were occupied by the French and that underwent radical institutional reform experienced more rapid urbanization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463816