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The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs
Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
job. This Paper uses an administrative data set from the Slovak Republic on durations of individual unemployment spells …
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How Long Do Unilateral Target Zones Last?
Dumas, Bernard J; Svensson, Lars E O - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
We examine the expected survival time of a unilateral exchange rate target zone, when constraints on monetary policy prevent the central bank from exclusively focusing on defending the target zone. In general, the width of the target zone has a negligible effect on the expected survival time,...
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Target Zones and Realignments
Bertola, Giuseppe; Caballero, Ricardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
Recent contribution emphasize that the presence of exchange rate target zones has important effects on the within-band behaviour of exchange rates. We show that the implications of available models are strikingly inconsistent with European Monetary System data, and we propose a model of...
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The Swinging Dollar: Is Europe Out of Step?
Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
The large dollar fluctuations of the last decade are often viewed as a classic example of a lack of macroeconomic coordination. This paper examines these fluctuations from a European perspective and suggests five conclusions. First, interdependence between Europe and the US is quite limited as...
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Managed Floating: Understanding the New International Monetary Order
Bofinger, Peter; Wollmershaeuser, Timo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
corner solutions. These intermediate regimes are characterized by significant foreign exchange market interventions of … different forms of floating on the basis of a central bank's intervention activity: pure floating (no interventions … interventions and sterilization and we explain why a central bank has an interest in controlling simultaneously the exchange rate …
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The Effects of Cannabis Use on Physical and Mental Health
Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates whether cannabis use affects physical and mental health. To do so, information on prime aged individuals living in Amsterdam in 1994 is used. Dutch data offer a clear advantage in estimating the health impacts of cannabis use because the legal status of cannabis in the...
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Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems
Ours, Jan C van; Williams, Jenny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors affecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use. Our main finding is that using cannabis increases...
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Do Non-standard Working Hours Cause Negative Health Effects? Some Evidence from Panel Data
Ulker, Aydogan - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006
What does the around-the-clock economic activity mean for workers’ health? Despite the fact that non-standard work accounts for an increasing share of the job opportunities, relatively little is known about the potential consequences for health and the existing evidence is ambiguous. In this...
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Cannabis use and suicidal ideation
Fergusson, David; Horwood, John; Ours, Jan C van; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Globally, suicide has emerged as the second leading cause of death among youth aged 10-24 years old. In order to better understand the causes of this phenomenon, we investigate the relationship between suicidal ideation and cannabis use. Our empirical analysis is based on a 30 year longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084327
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
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