Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,752
Cover Image
Australia: the miracle economy
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2013
it the Great Recession), but the Australian economy appears to be powering ahead. It is a miracle economy! Unlike most of … economy compared to some of the OECD countries and see that, in fact, Australia has a "miracle economy". The comparisons are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774315
Cover Image
Growing up in a recession : beliefs and the macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884097
Cover Image
The impact of the macroeconomy on health insurance coverage : evidence from the great recession
Cawley, John H.; Moriya, Asako S.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521262
Cover Image
Heterogeneous life-cycle profiles, income risk and consumption inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio E. (contributor);  … - 2007
Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656884
Cover Image
Who cares about stock market booms and busts? : evidence from data on mental health
Ratcliffe, Anita; Taylor, Karl - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in the FTSE All Share price index to respondents over the period 1991-2008. We present evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656617
Cover Image
Gender gaps across countries and skills : supply, demand and the industry structure
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379497
Cover Image
The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security
Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor);  … - 2008
social insurance. We describe a model economy in which demographics, technology, and social security are linked together. We … study an economy with two locations (sectors), the farm (agricultural) and the city (industrial). The decision to migrate … economy is consistent with the historical transformation in the United States. Initially a majority of voters live on the farm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759906
Cover Image
How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688845
Cover Image
The cliometrics of international migration : a survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959313
Cover Image
The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184