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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178
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Banking crisis resolution policy - lessons from recent experience : which elements are needed for robust and efficient crisis resolution?
Mayes, David G. - 2009
The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international efforts to coordinate and converge on such policies, national policy advice and resolution practices differ. The resolution methods adopted in the Nordic banking crises in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003891719
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Turkish delight for some, cold Turkey for others? : The effects of the EU-Turkey Customs Union
Adam, Antonis (contributor); Moutos, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
Following Turkey's application for EU membership in 1987, a Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU, mainly covering trade in manufacturing goods and processed agricultural products, came into effect in 1995. In addition to a large agricultural sector, Turkey also specializes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003201728
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Estimating long-run incarceration rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175815
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House prices and macroprudential policy in an estimated DSGE model of New Zealand
Funke, Michael; Kirkby, Robert; Mihaylovski, Petar - 2017
We analyse the effects of macroprudential and monetary policies and their interactions using an estimated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model tailored to New Zealand. We find that the main historical drivers of house prices are shocks specific to the housing sector. While our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657893
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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence
Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001
whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the … Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We conclude that major differences in pass-through exist in our sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398432
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State intervention on the market for natural damage insurance in Europe
Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 2003
, Spain, France, Switzerland and Germany. We then draw conclusions, how the market for insurance against natural disasters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511057
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Two-tier labor markets in the great recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan J.; Le … - 2010
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their … France, unemployment rate has increased by 2 percentage points, whereas in Spain it has shot up to 19% by the end of 2009. We … contracts and the less restrictive rules regarding the use of the latter contracts in Spain. Using a calibrated search and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008757525
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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Testing, not modelling, the impact of cohesion support : a theoretical framework and some preliminary results for the Spanish regions
Fuente, Ángel de la - 2010
This paper develops a simple model that can be used to estimate the effectiveness of Cohesion expenditure relative to similar but unsubsidized projects, thereby making it possible to explicitly test an important assumption that is often implicit in estimates of the impact of Cohesion policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928834