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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis
Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
We examine the impact of COVID-19 on employment in South Korea as of June 2020. To estimate the causal effect, we use two complementary methods. First, using individual-level data without residence information, we estimate the effects by controlling for detailed characteristics of individuals....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431574
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Time-varying individual risk attitudes over the Great Recession : a comparison of Germany and Ukraine
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - 2015
We use the panel data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and of the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to investigate whether risk attitudes have primary (exogenous) determinants that are valid in different stages of economic development and in a different structural context,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337020
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Trading while sleepy? : circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market
Dickinson, David L.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; … - 2017
Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731909
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Mind, body, bubble! : psychological and biophysical dimensions of behavior in experimental asset markets
Butler, David J.; Cheung, Stephen L. - 2018
Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to animal spirits or irrational exuberance, their source remains imperfectly understood. Experimental methods can isolate systematic deviations from an asset's fundamental value in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870688
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The productivity impact of R&D investment : a comparison between the EU and the US
Castellani, Davide; Piva, Mariacristina; Schubert, Torben; … - 2016
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially in the high-tech industries), and this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476418
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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879344
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763229
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235135
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Selection criteria and the skill composition of immigrants : a comparative analysis of Australian and US employment immigration
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor);  … - 2008
immigration ; globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726801
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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …
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