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Government Spending Shocks and the Multiplier : New Evidence from the U.S. Based on Natural Disasters

Yang, Weonho - 2012

The literature on estimating macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy requires suitable instruments to identify exogenous and unanticipated spending shocks. So far, the instrument of choice has been military build-ups. This instrument, however, largely limits the analysis to the US as few other...

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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States

Menezes-Filho, Naercio - 2010

in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other countries, while occupation differentials are similar. The gender … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …

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Macroeconomic Effects of Disruptions in Global Food Commodity Markets : Evidence for the United States

De Winne, Jasmien - 2016

commodity price shocks. Both approaches deliver similar conclusions. Specifically, an unfavorable food commodity market shock …

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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US

Giulietti, Corrado - 2015

Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...

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Import Competition and the Great U.S. Employment Sag of the 2000s

Acemoglu, Daron - 2015

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …

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Job Creation Tax Credits, Fiscal Foresight, and Job Growth : Evidence from U.S. States

Chirinko, Robert S. - 2016

quantitative importance of fiscal foresight. We investigate whether JCTCs affect employment growth before, at, and after the time … difference-in-difference regression framework applied to monthly panel data on employment, the JCTC effective and legislative …

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Hours Worked in Europe and the US : New Data, New Answers

Bick, Alexander - 2016

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe …

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Time Variation in U.S. Wage Dynamics

Hofmann, Boris - 2011

This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates as well as real and nominal wages. The results indicate considerable time variation in U.S. wage dynamics that can be linked to the monetary policy regime. Before and after the...

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Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and Their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations

Peersman, Gert - 2014

type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank …

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US Monetary Policy in a Globalized World

Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo - 2016

policy shock leads to a persistent fall in international output, a drop in global inflation rates, a rise in international … shock to foreign real GDP growth …

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