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Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In this paper we attempt to answer three questions. First,...
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US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro dynamic structure in which cyclical … fluctuations have persistent effects on the natural rate of entrepreneurship. We find evidence of hysteresis in Spain, but not the … article discusses implications of the findings for the design of entrepreneurship policies. -- Hysteresis ; unobserved …
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The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s than traditional V-shaped recoveries of the past. In this paper, we revisit possible explanations...
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transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate … rates to work, and sometimes also from work. The quantitative magnitude of persistency and hysteresis effects on inequality … is modest. -- Duration analysis ; hysteresis ; inequality ; wages ; unemployment ; hazard rates ; employment ; income …
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The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing political affiliations and forming political identities. In this paper we study how these...
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aspects: incidence, severity and hysteresis. Incidence refers to the conventional unemployment rate; severity takes in both … unemployment duration and the associated income loss; and hysteresis refers to the probability of remaining unemployed. The social … loss, unemployment duration and hysteresis. The resulting formula is simple and easy to understand and implement. We apply …
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We introduce a simple oligopolistic trade model with international transportation costs, and analyze the profitability and the social desirability of national vs. international mergers in relation to three different issues, (i) the level of trade freeness, (ii) the possibility of rent...
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