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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536419
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127786
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403448
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Effects of US policy uncertainty on Swedish GDP growth
Stockhammar, Pär; Österholm, Pär - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 50 (2016) 2, pp. 443-462
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System estimates of potential output and the NAIRU
Apel, Mikael; Jansson, Per - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 24 (1999) 3, pp. 373-388
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Roles played by financial development in economic growth : application of the flexible regression model
Shen, Chung-hua; Lee, Chien-chiang; Chen, Shyh-wei; … - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 41 (2011) 1, pp. 103-125
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968599
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Nonlinear attractors and asymmetries between non-life insurance premiums and financial markets
Sephton, Peter S.; Mann, Janelle - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 49 (2015) 3, pp. 783-799
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377296