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Exchange rate volatility effects on the German labour market : a survey of recent results and extensions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999
In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294706
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Exchange rate volatility and employment growth : empirical evidence from the CEE economies
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Setzer, Ralph (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001937672
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On the exchange rate and economic policy uncertainty nexus: a panel VAR approach for emerging markets
Abid, Abir; Rault, Christophe - 2020
We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239005
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Volatility spillover between oil prices and main exchange rates : evidence from a DCC-GARCH-connectedness approach
Ben Salem, Leila; Zayati, Montassar; Nouira, Ridha; … - 2024
contagion spillover volatility by focusing on a sample of major oil-exporting and oil-importing countries using daily data from …; during COVID-19; and during the Russian-Ukrainian war. Our results confirm the persistence of volatility for the series … volatility transmission between oil prices and exchange-rate markets. However, the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494631
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Understanding Pareto inefficient intrahousehold allocations
Akresh, Richard (contributor) - 2005
Udry (1996) uses household survey data and finds that the allocation of resources within households is Pareto inefficient, contradicting the main assumption of most collective models of intrahousehold bargaining. He finds that among plots planted with the same crop in the same year, within a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003287812
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Optimal accumulation in an endogenous growth setting with human capital
Docquier, Frédéric (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper considers a three-overlapping-generations model of endogenous growth wherein human capital is the engine of growth. It first contrasts the laissez-faire and the optimal solutions. Three possible accumulation regimes are distinguished. Then it discusses a standard set of tax-transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003310953
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation : theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925275
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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016
High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration - often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from developing countries. In this paper, we provide a global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551902
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Welfare effects of short-time compensation
Braun, Helge; Bruegemann, Bjoern - 2014
We study welfare effects of public short-time compensation (STC) in a model in which firms respond to idiosyncratic profitability shocks by adjusting employment and hours per worker. Introducing STC substantially improves welfare by mitigating distortions caused by public unemployment insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423761
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The welfare effects of asset means-testing income support
Wellschmied, Felix - 2015
This paper quantitatively determines the asset limit in income support programs which minimizes consumption volatility … wealth. Consequently, they miss self-insurance and suffer from high consumption volatility. For an unborn, these effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479004