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Experimental labor markets and policy considerations : incomplete contracts and macroeconomic aspects
Casoria, Fortuna; Riedl, Arno - 2012
This survey focuses on experimental labor markets investigating two aspects that deem us important for a better understanding of labor market relations and the consequences for labor market policies. The first part of the survey is dedicated to papers that assess the prevalence of reciprocal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683305
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Oil price shocks, monetary policy and current account imbalances within a currency union
Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2017
For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows that internal current account imbalances inside a currency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785688
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Aggregate savings and external imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded 9 percent of GDP. The current paper presents a unified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656609
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Labor market reforms and current account imbalances : beggar-thy-neighbor policies in a currency union?
Baas, Timo; Belke, Ansgar - 2014
Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market imbalances perceive reforms as the fastest way to restore competitiveness within a currency union....
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Does openness to international financial flows contribute to productivity growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2008
productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … growth, far less attention has been paid to its effects on productivity growth. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis … of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003747653
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Estimating the impacts of payroll taxes : evidence from Canadian employer-employee tax data
Deslauriers, Jonathan; Dostie, Benoît; Gagné, Robert; … - 2018
in the payroll tax rate to estimate its impact on the firm's level of employment, average wage and productivity, with … employment, productivity and profits, but significant impacts on wages, implying that payroll taxes are passed almost entirely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872828
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School effects and labor market outcomes for young adults in the 1980s and 1990s
Constant, Amelie; Konstantopoulos, Spyros - 2002
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415557
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Policy evaluation using causal inference methods
Fougère, Denis; Jacquemet, Nicolas - 2020
This chapter describes the main impact evaluation methods, both experimental and quasi-experimental, and the statistical model underlying them. Some of the most important methodological advances to have recently been put forward in this field of research are presented. We focus not only on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162836
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Mental health and reporting bias : analysis of the GHQ-12
Brown, Sarah; Harris, Mark N.; Srivastava, Pratima Ramful; … - 2018
Measures of mental wellbeing are heavily relied upon to identify at-risk individuals. However, self-reported mental health metrics might be unduly affected by mis-reporting (perhaps stemming from stigma effects). In this paper we consider this phenomenon using data from the British Household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903893
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IAB employment subsample 1975-1995 : opportunities for analysis provided by the anonymised subsample
Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
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