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The aggregate effects of trade and migration : evidence from OECD countries
Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2011
Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a potentially serious omitted-variables bias,...
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COVID-19, school closures, and student learning outcomes : new global evidence from PISA
Jakubowski, Maciej; Gajderowicz, Tomasz; Patrinos, … - 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in significant disruption in schooling worldwide. This paper uses global test score data to estimate learning losses. It models the effect of school closures on achievement by predicting the deviation of the most recent results from a linear trend using data from...
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Environmental regulation and competitiveness : evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...
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Trade and worker deskilling
Costa, Rui; Dhingra, Swati; Machin, Stephen - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
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What have we learned? : assessing labor market institutions and indicators
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Feil, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies trying to explain differences in national labor market performance through institutional variables have burgeoned significantly. It is now time to review these indicators and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003693708
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Parental leave and mothers' careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
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Redistribution policy and inequality reduction in OECD countries : what has changed in two decades?
Immervoll, Herwig; Richardson, Linda - 2011
We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or accelerated the trend towards greater income disparities in the past 20-25 years. In most countries, inequality among "non-elderly" households has widened during most phases of the...
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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections
Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000
Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by microeconomic frictions and impacted upon by macroeconomic factors such as monetary policy, could also be to blame. This paper shows that labor and credit market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336864
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Does the recent success of some OECD countries in lowering their unemployment rates lie in the clever design of their labour market reforms?
Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C. van - 2000
The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common...
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Does the welfare state destroy the family? : evidence from OECD member countries
Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013
We study the effect of the size of the welfare state on family outcomes in OECD member countries. Exploiting exogenous variation in public social spending, due to varying degrees of political fractionalization (i.e. the number of relevant parties involved in the legislative process), we show...
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