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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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The biocultural origins of human capital formation

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014

This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...

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Finance-growth nexus and banking efficiency : the impact of microfinance institutions

Abrar, Afsheen; Hasan, Iftekhar; Kabir, Rezaul - In: Journal of economics & business 114 (2021), pp. 1-19

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Bank credit and economic growth : short-run evidence from a dynamic threshold panel model

Sok Heng Lay - In: Economics letters 192 (2020), pp. 1-3

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Bank profitability and economic growth

Klein, Paul-Olivier; Weill, Laurent - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 84 (2022), pp. 183-199

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Partial insurance and investments in children

Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

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The firing cost implications of alternative severance pay designs

Parsons, Donald O. - 2010

) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …

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Human capital risk, contract enforcement, and the macroeconomy

Krebs, Tom; Kuhn, Moritz; Wright, Mark L. J. - 2015

due to the limited pledgeability of human capital. We show analytically that, consistent with the life insurance data, in … account for the life-cycle variation of life-insurance holdings, financial wealth, earnings, and consumption inequality … insurance. …

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The effect of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act on the insurance industry

Neale, Faith R.; Peterson, Pamela P. - In: Journal of economics & business 57 (2005) 4, pp. 317-338

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