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Labour Market Regulations and Capital Intensity

Cette, Gilbert - 2016

On the basis of a country*industry unbalanced panel data sample for 14 OECD countries and 18 industries covering the years 1988 to 2007, this study proposes an econometric investigation of the effects of the OECD Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) indicator on capital intensity for four...

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The Role of Shocks and Institutions in the Rise of European Unemployment : The Aggregate Evidence

Blanchard, Olivier - 1999

Two key facts about European unemployment must be explained: the rise in unemployment since the 1960s, and the … heterogeneity of individual country experiences. While adverse shocks can potentially explain much of the rise in unemployment … institutions pre-date the rise in unemployment. Based on a panel of institutions and shocks for 20 OECD nations since 1960, we find …

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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 … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program : Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

Heckman, James J. - 2003

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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Endogenous Stratification in Randomized Experiments

Abadie, Alberto - 2013

Researchers and policy makers are often interested in estimating how treatments or policy interventions affect the outcomes of those most in need of help. This concern has motivated the increasingly common practice of disaggregating experimental data by groups constructed on the basis of an...

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Does Inflation Targeting Matter?

Ball, Laurence - 2003

This paper asks whether inflation targeting improves economic performance, as measured by the behavior of inflation, output, and interest rates. We compare seven OECD countries that adopted inflation targeting in the early 1990s to thirteen that did not. After the early 90s, performance improved...

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The Effects of Fiscal Consolidations : Theory and Evidence

Alesina, Alberto - 2017

We investigate the macroeconomic effects of fiscal consolidations based upon government spending cuts, transfers cuts and tax hikes. We extend a narrative dataset of fiscal consolidations, with details on over 3500 measures for 16 OECD countries. We show that government spending cuts and cuts in...

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The Economic Consequences of Family Policies : Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries

Olivetti, Claudia - 2017

We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...

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The Value of Smarter Teachers : International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2014

-effects estimation exploiting within-country between-subject variation in teacher skills. A series of robustness and placebo tests …

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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert - 2014

through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …

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