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China's emergence in the world economy and business cycles in Latin America

Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Rebucci, … - 2011

vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages between China, Latin America, and the rest of the … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … to Latin America and the rest of emerging Asia (excluding China and India) GDP has not undergone any significant change …

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The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession : evidence from the Asian financial crisis

Choi, Eleanor Jawon; Choi, Jaewoo; Son, Hyelim - 2020

This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated from college before, during, and after the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis in South Korea. We measure the overall welfare effect by examining their labor market activities, family...

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Who is hit hardest during a financial crisis? : the vulnerability of young men and women to unemployment in an economic downturn

Verick, Sher Singh - 2009

The current financial and economic crisis has resulted in the worst global recession since World War II. The subsequent destruction of jobs and increased duration of joblessness will ensure that unemployment across the world will continue to rise and stay stubbornly high for some time to come,...

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Health and well-being in the crisis

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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The impact of the crisis on employment and the role of labour market institutions

Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Verónica; Marx, Paul; … - 2010

The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in relation to output or GDP reductions varies...

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Surviving the crisis : foreign multinationals vs domestic firms in Ireland

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2011

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...

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Determinants of immigrant homeownership : examining their changing role during the Great Recession and beyond

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The Great Recession had significant economic effects both in the U.S. and around the world. There is evidence that homeownership rates declined during this period, though some immigrants were less severely affected compared to natives. In this paper we investigate the role of several factors in...

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Wage flexibility and the Great Recession : the response of the Irish labour market

Doris, Aedín; O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive B. - 2013

There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous attempts to empirically examine wage rigidity have been hampered by small samples and measurement...

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Using the EU-SILC to model the impact of the economic crisis on inequality

O'Donoghue, Cathal; Loughrey, Jason; Morrissey, Karyn - 2013

In this paper we attempted to chart the impact of the early part of Ireland's economic crisis from 2008-2010 on the distribution of income. In order to decompose the impact of components of income, we utilised a microsimulation methodology the EU-SILC User Database. In order to do this we had to...

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The effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' risky health behaviors and time use

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2014

This paper uses individual-level data from both the 2003-2011 American Time Use Survey and Youth Risk Behavior Survey and state-level unemployment rates to examine the effects of the Great Recession on teenagers' activities. I present results by gender and gender by race/ethnicity. Over the...

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