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Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks : New Evidence Using Natural Disaster Relief in Korea
Yang, Weonho - 2012
We investigate the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Korea. We compare results obtained with two alternative approaches: the narrative approach and Structural Vector-Autoregressive model (SVAR). We propose a new methodology for identifying exogenous and unexpected fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100013
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Persuasion and Gender : Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2016
campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field … experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for mayor in Cava de' Tirreni (2015). In both cases, a sample of eligible … gender differences emerge. Females vote more for the opponent and less for the incumbent when they are exposed to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992438
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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130100
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Globalization : A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap
Bøler, Esther Ann - 2015
effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting …. Our identification strategy relies on an exogenous shock, namely, the legislative changes that increased the length of the …
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Loan Supply Shocks During the Financial Crisis : Evidence for the Euro Area
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershaeuser, Timo - 2021
This paper employs a panel vector autoregressive model for the member countries of the Euro Area to explore the role of banks during the slump of the real economy that followed the financial crisis. In particular, we seek to quantify the macroeconomic effects of adverse loan supply shocks, which...
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Firm Response to Competitive Shocks : Evidence from China's Minimum Wage Policy
Hau, Harald - 2017
firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that … minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from labor to capital, reduce employment growth and accelerate total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947448
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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2013
relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place … on two individual-level data sets yield large and positive effects of public child care on maternal employment. A set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082974
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Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits
Raute, Anna - 2017
To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high educated (high earning) and low educated (low earning) women, I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increases the financial incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946918
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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117356
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Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Adjustment : A Tale of Two Approaches
Yang, Weonho - 2013
We investigate the short-term effects of fiscal adjustment on economic activity in 20 OECD countries from 1970 to 2009. We compare two approaches: the traditional approach based on changes in cyclically adjusted primary balance (CAPB) and the narrative approach based on historical records....
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