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Kemptner, Daniel - 2019

model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks …

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Risk aversion and trade union membership

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008

that an overall increase in risk aversion contributes to wage moderation and promotes employment. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264999

Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? Evidence from a structural model

Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …

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Armut von Erwerbstätigen im europäischen Vergleich: eine Analyse unter Berücksichtigung des Einkommensverteilungsprozesses

Lohmann, Henning - 2009

In Europe, there are significant differences in the extent and in the structure of in-work poverty. Based on a comparison of 20 countries the present study analyses to what extent this is due to the differences in the institutional framework conditions of a given country. The analy-ses are based...

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Longevity, life-cycle behavior and pension reform

Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2011

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …

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The effect of health and employment risks on precautionary savings

Geyer, Johannes - 2011

This paper extends the idea of using ex-ante risk measures in a model of precautionary savings by explicitly simulating future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health. The model is estimated for prime age males using the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287263

The macroeconomic consequences of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty

Boer, Lukas; Rieth, Malte - 2024

We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining theory-consistent and narrative sign restrictions on Bayesian SVARs. We find mostly adverse consequences of protectionism. Tariff shocks are more important than trade policy...

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On the international spillovers of US quantitative easing

Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland - 2013

The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve's unconventional monetary policy measures. First, we find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1), but not since 2010 (QE2), were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and raising equity markets in the US...

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Liquidity and asset prices: how strong are the linkages?

Dreger, Christian; Wolters, Jürgen - 2009

The appropriate design of monetary policy in integrated financial markets is one of the most challenging areas for central banks. One hot topic is whether the rise in liquidity in recent years has contributed to the formation of price bubbles in asset markets. If strong linkages exist, the...

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From boom to bust? A critical look at US shale gas projections

Richter, Philipp M. - 2013

numerical simulation. In a world of declining US shale gas production after 2015, natural gas consumption outside the USA is …

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