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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631462
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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Crossing the border : self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966975
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The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
Kaplan, Greg - 2014
accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and … Spain to document the share of such households across countries, their demographic characteristics, the composition of their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054868
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International Transmission Under Bretton Woods
Stockman, Alan C. - 2021
This paper explores the main channels of international transmission of economic disturbances under the Bretton Woods System and presents evidence on the short-run international transmission of inflation under that system. There appears to have been little short-run international transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233746
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Tastes and Technology in a Two-Country Model of the Business Cycle : Explaining International Comovements
Stockman, Alan C.; Tesar, Linda L. - 2021
This paper studies the international transmission of business cycles by developing a two-country real business-cycle model and confronting it with a broad set of empirical observations. These observations include variances and covariances of output, labor, consumption, employment, and investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210682
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434591
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Changes in the economic well-being of widows following the death of their husband : a four country comparison
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Giles, Philip; Lillard, Dean R.; … - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 123 (2003) 1, pp. 151-161
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760260