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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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Financial development and employment: Evidence from transition countries

Schäfer, Dorothea; Steiner, Susan - 2014

This paper studies the association between a country's level of financial development and firms' employment growth. We … development affects the employment of firms with low managerial capital negatively, while firms with high managerial capital … managerial capital. Our findings confirm a non-linear effect of financial development on firm employment. Specifically, the …

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Cross-country estimates of employment and investment in organisational capital: A task-based methodology using the PIAAC database

Le Mouel, Marie; Squicciarini, Mariagrazia - 2015

This work proposes a task-based methodology for the measurement of employment and investment in organisational capital … total employment to represent between 9.5% (Denmark) to 26% (United Kingdom), with an average of 16%. Total investment in OC ….2% across all countries. Managers appear to account for less than half of total employment and investment in OC, and total …

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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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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...

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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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Persistent US current account deficit: The role of foreign direct investment

Celebi, Kaan; Röger, Werner; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2024

This paper re-evaluates the US external deficit which has considerably widened over the 1990s. US safe asset provision to the rest of the world is the dominant explanation for the persistent nature of the US external deficit. We suggest that apart from the safe asset hypothesis, there is an...

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Does the Dispersion of Unit Labor Cost Dynamics in the EMU Imply Long-run Divergence? Results from a Comparison with the United States of America and Germany

Dullien, Sebastian; Fritsche, Ulrich - 2007

Using unit labor cost (ULC) data from Euro area countries as well as US States and German L¨ander we investigate inflation convergence using different approaches, namely panel unit root tests, cointegration tests and error-correction models. All in all we cannot reject convergence of ULC growth...

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