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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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To React or Not? Fiscal Policy, Volatility and Welfare in the EU-3

Malley, Jim - 2008

implications of countercyclical fiscal policy for France, Germany and the UK. The model incorporates real wage rigidity which is …

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Estimating General Equilibrium Spillovers of Large-Scale Shocks

Huber, Kilian - 2021

functional forms can overcome different sources of bias. The analysis is particularly relevant to the estimation of spillovers …

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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries

Altmejd, Adam - 2020

Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile,...

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Mimic Models, Cointegration and Error Correction : An Application to the French Shadow Economy

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

short run dynamics, thereby retaining information for the long run. Using France as our example, we demonstrate that this …

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Modelling Persistence and Non-Linearities in the US Treasury 10-Year Bond Yields

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Yaya, … - 2022

This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the period 1962-2021 using two different fractional integration approaches including Chebyshev polynomials and Fourier functions respectively. The results for both quarterly and...

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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability

Addison, John T. - 2019

plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …

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Minimum Wage and Firm Variety

Jha, Priyaranjan; Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2021

Exploiting minimum-wage variation within multi-state commuting zones, we document a negative relationship between minimum wages and firm variety in the U.S. restaurant and retail trade industries. To explain this finding, we construct a heterogeneous-firm model with a monopsonistic labor market...

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COVID-Induced School Closures in the US and Germany : Long-Term Distributional Effects

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022

dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …

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Non-Linearities and Persistence in US Long-Run Interest Rates

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2021

-August 2020, the other from the ECB reporting average monthly values over the period January 1900-August 2020. The estimation …

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