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This paper looks at the joint impact of labour market risk and selection in to the labour market on returns to … education. Accounting for non-employment risk leads to substantial changes in returns while wage risk has little impact. The … risk- adjusted returns to both high school and college for males are larger than unadjusted returns. For females, risk …
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We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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, and South Korea) using a quantile vector autoregression (QVAR) model-based spillover estimation approach of Balcilar et al …
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This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
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employment and income, but increases financial hardship and financial risk aversion. These impacts are generally short …
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This paper studies the causal impacts of vaccine eligibility on social distancing behaviors (risk compensation). We … from credit card and airline companies as well as survey data. We find no evidence of risk compensation although vaccine …
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is implemented. While policy discussion to date has focused on equitable outcomes, we propose framing risk equity … policies in terms of equitable risk tradeoff rates based on six policy guidelines. The starting point for ex ante evaluation of … equity for mortality risk policies should be the symmetric application of the value of a statistical life (VSL) to all groups …
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This paper identifies individual and regional risk factors for hospitalizations caused by heat within the German …
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The role of product innovations is growing in the world economy, and the EU and the US are key players here. The analysis presented herein explains product innovations in the EU25 for the period 2006-2012, namely through lagged R&D (relative to GDP), cumulated FDI inflows (relative to the host...
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A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 offered tax incentives for investing in certain low-income areas in the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in order to improve the economic well-being of their residents....
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