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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses
Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020
economic lockdown and contagion. We then supply empirical evidence, by means of simulation analysis, on the distributive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214250
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Counterfactual analysis in macroeconometrics : an empirical investigation into the effects of quantitative easing
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2012
This paper is concerned with ex ante and ex post counterfactual analyses in the case of macroeconometric applications where a single unit is observed before and after a given policy intervention. It distinguishes between cases where the policy change affects the model's parameters and where it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548055
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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2024
The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper …-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model … identifies the impact of innovation, imitation and R&D costs on firms' R&D decisions. R&D costs gained importance in Switzerland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535654
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Macroeconometric evaluation of active labour market policies in Germany : a dynamic panel approach using regional data
Hujer, Reinhard; Blien, Uwe; Caliendo, Marco; Zeiss, … - 2002
Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414213
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Macroeconomic impacts of ALMP on the matching process in West Germany
Hujer, Reinhard (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001808448
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Causality and econometrics
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2022
This paper examines the econometric causal model for policy analysis developed by the seminal ideas of Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal model with two popular causal frameworks: Neyman-Holland causal model and the do-calculus. The Neyman-Holland causal model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886838
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Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of social public procurement policy : the case of the Swiss apprenticeship training system
Leiser, Mirjam Strupler; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2016
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449858
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Recoupling economic and social prosperity
Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2020
This paper explores a new theoretical and empirical approach to the assessment of human well-being, relevant to current challenges of social fragmentation in the presence of globalization and technological advance. We present two indexes of well-being - solidarity (S) and agency (A) - to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178514
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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress
Stark, Oded - 2023
Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278609
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Time-to-degree and the business cycle
Messer, Dolores (contributor); Wolter, Stefan C. (contributor) - 2007
When students themselves enjoy large degrees of freedom in determining the duration of their studies, it results in a fairly large degree of interindividual variance in terms of time-to-degree. This paper investigates individual time-to-degree in a model where students determine the optimum...
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