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This paper introduces two co-movement measures based on the Thick Pen Transform into the macroeconomic literature: the Thick Pen Measure of Association (TPMA) as well as Multi-Thickness Thick Pen Measure of Association (MTTPMA). Both measures are non-parametric, time-varying, and flexible....
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This paper proposes tests of policy ineffectiveness in the context of macroeconometric rational expectations models. It is assumed that there is a policy intervention that takes the form of changes in the parameters of a policy rule, and that there are sufficient observations before and after...
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Identifying high growth startups ex-ante and fostering their success is an important policy challenge. Using Swedish registry data, we show that previous labor market earnings of entrepreneurs is a simple observable that is strongly correlated with entrepreneurship success. Entrepreneurs from...
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activity, with a positive impact on tourism expenditure and tourism employment, but no effect on total employment. In high-unemployment …
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This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational...
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-Stiglitz-Krugman model. Later we reflect on wage inequality and unemployment providing some interesting results. …
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increase in a state-industry’s monthly unemployment rate. The effect is amplified in industries employing a larger fraction of … charges increases by more than 30% in response to a 50% cut to North Carolina’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) program following …
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production to zero, we show that the effects of a WTR on (un)employment depend on the abundance of natural capital. If it is …
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the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …
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We estimate impacts of male job loss, female job loss, and male unemployment benefits on domestic violence in Brazil. We … increases in domestic violence. Exploiting a discontinuity in unemployment insurance eligibility, we find that eligible men are … increase in exposure of victims to perpetrators, with unemployment benefits partially offsetting the income shock while …
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