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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development
Auer, Raphael A. - 2012
. -- growth ; institutions ; geography ; comparative development ; colonialism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009571204
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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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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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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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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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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor);  … - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771831
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Taxing corporate income
Auerbach, Alan J. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003623914
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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey
Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004
This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399168
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency : the case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383456