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Occupations shape retirement across countries

Sauré, Philip; Seibold, Arthur; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; … - 2023

We study how occupations shape individual and aggregate retirement behavior. First, we document large differences in individual retirement ages across occupations in U.S. data. We then show that retirement behavior among European workers is strongly correlated with U.S. occupational retirement...

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Sectoral Okun's law and cross-country cyclical differences

Goto, Eiji; Bürgi, Constantin - 2020

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...

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Universalism : global evidence

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Enke, Benjamin; Tungodden, Bertil - 2022

This paper presents a new set of stylized facts about the global variation in universalism, leveraging hypothetical money allocation tasks deployed in representative samples of 64,000 people from 60 countries. Our data reveal large variation in universalism within and across countries, which...

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Opening hours of polling stations and voter turnout : evidence from a natural experiment

Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2016

Voter turnout has declined in many industrialized countries, raising the question of whether electoral institutions increase voter turnout. We exploit an electoral reform in the Austrian state of Burgenland as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of opening hours of polling...

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Benefit entitlement and the labor market : evidence from a large-scale policy change

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum …

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The Increase of the Size of the Shadow Economy of 18 OECD Countries: Some Preliminary Explanations

Schneider, Friedrich - 2000

indirect tax burden and government regulation) on the shadow economy for Austria. …

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Wars and markets : how bond values reflect World War II

Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 1999

Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and … Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in … is Germany's capitulation in 1945. The analysis of financial markets provides a fruitful method to evaluate the …

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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Recent Developments in...

Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004

We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in cases where exit costs in relation to (outlet-specific) fixed costs are high. Our empirical analysis of the Austrian retail gasoline market confirms that increases in...

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity in the …

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Compulsory voting, voter turnout and asymmetrical habit-formation

Gäbler, Stefanie; Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2017

We examine whether compulsory voting influences habit-formation in voting. In Austria, some states temporarily …

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