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The surprisingly swift decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229883
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Globalization and the rise of mega-cities in the developing world
Ploeg, Frederick van der (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635200
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Abolishing the marital wage premium in Greece : employment and participation effects on minimum wage workers
Kakoulidou, Theano; Konstantinou, Panagiotis; Moutos, Thomas - 2020
We estimate the employment and labour force participation effects resulting from the abolition of the marital allowance … from the Greek LFS over the period 2008:Q1-2016:Q1 we do not find any differential change in the probability of employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294574
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The quantification of structural reforms : extending the framework to emerging market economies
Égert, Balázs - 2018
businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800715
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Identifying the effects of sanctions on the Iranian economy using newspaper coverage
Laudati, Dario; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2021
are also found to have adverse effects on employment, labor force participation, secondary and high-school education, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599150
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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement reforms. Reform 1 (NRA) increased normal retirement age stepwise from 60 to 65. Simultaneously, it became possible to use early retirement with benefit discounts. Reform 2 (ERA)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697080
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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008
This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003730274
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Escaping from a combination of liquidity trap and credit crunch
Heinemann, Frank (contributor) - 2008
This brief exposition suggests that the Federal Reserve System temporarily guarantee a lower bound on stock prices in order to escape the current combination of liquidity trap and credit crunch. It shortly discusses reasons for this measure, consequences, and some alternatives. It is meant as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790626
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Crisis and responses : the Federal Reserve in the early stages of the financial crisis
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 23 (2009) 1, pp. 51-75
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Market-based policy options to control US greenhouse gas emissions
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 23 (2009) 2, pp. 5-27
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