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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900319
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When credit dries up : job losses in the Great Recession
Bentolila, Samuel; Jansen, Marcel; Jiménez, Gabriel; … - 2013
We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked differences in banks' health at the onset of the Great Recession. Several weak banks were rescued by the State and they reduced credit more than other banks. We compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225894
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Financial markets, banks' cost of funding, and firms' decisions : lessons from two crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229932
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The labor market consequences of adverse financial shocks
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R. - 2012
The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor market volatility and Okun's elasticity over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613676
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771056
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Adding rungs to the exporting ladder : plant-level exporting dynamics and total factor productivity growth
Voicu, Alexandru (contributor) - 2008
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771885
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Aid and migration : an analysis of the impact of progresa on the timing and size of labour migration
Angelucci, Manuela (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002115241
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Social interactions and schooling decisions
Lalive, Rafael (contributor);  … - 2006
school attendance among a sub-group of eligible children within small rural villages in Mexico. Results indicate that (i) the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355647
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A cohort analysis of labor participation in Mexico, 1987 - 2009
Duval-Hernández, Robert; Orraca Romano, Pedro - 2009
This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894407
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Oportunidades : program effect on consumption, low participation, and methodological issues
Angelucci, Manuela; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2009
In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the estimation of treatment effects. We discuss the comparability of treatment and control areas,...
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