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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that introduced in 1990 costs for dismissals unmotivated by a ‘fair cause’ or ‘justified motive’ in...
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from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most … negatively and independently from the effect of life expectancy. There is no correlation with GDP. Econometric analysis of the …
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This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1-2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...
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Quarterly GDP figures usually are published with a delay of some weeks. A common way to generate GDP series of higher … frequency, i.e. to nowcast GDP, is to use available indicators to calculate a single index by means of a common factor derived …-tiered mechanism consisting in the identification of variables highly correlated with GDP as "core" indicators and a check of …
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macro series, namely annual and quarterly real GDP and GDP per capita. The results indicate that the behaviour of US GDP can …
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bilateral tax treaties increase comovement in shocks to nations' GDP trends, demonstrating the permanent effects of fiscal …
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Mainstream economic research regards private debt as a determinant of GDP growth in the longrun. Levine (2005) surveys … focus from the long to the short-run and study whether private debt has a significant impact on GDP growth in the short …
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This paper presents a stress indicator for the eurozone that summarizes developments of trends and cycles in real GDP … on the trend growth rates of GDP and consumer prices as well as on the related cyclical components. The main results are …
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This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...
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What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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