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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...
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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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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 …
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Asymmetries in global value chain integration, technology and employment structures in Europe : country and sectoral evidence
Bontadini, Filippo; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Meliciani, … - 2021
This paper provides empirical evidence on the complex role played by technology in affecting the relationship between the participation of EU countries and industries in Global Value Chains (GVCs) and their employment structure over the period 2000-2014. The empirical analysis is based on...
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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020
, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …-March until mid-May. Using Italy as a case study, we find that high-social-capital areas exhibit lower excess mortality and a …
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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 …
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Credit supply shocks and firm dynamics : evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - 2023
We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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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...
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A re-examination of the link between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials
Hoffmann, Mathias; MacDonald, Ronald - 2003
The real exchange rate - real interest rate (RERI) relationship is central to most open economy macroeconomic models. However, empirical support for the relationship, especially when cointegrationbased methods are used, is rather weak. In this paper we reinvestigate the RERI relationship using...
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Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes : simulations for selected OECD countries
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514127