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This paper presents a revised version of the DIW Economic Barometer, the business cycle index of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). As in earlier versions, we put forward a factor model on a monthly frequency to filter the latent state of the aggregate economy. In the new...
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This paper examines the role of sovereign default beliefs for macroeconomic fluctuations and stabilization policy in a small open economy where fiscal solvency is a critical problem. We set up and estimate a DSGE model on Turkish data and show that accounting for sovereign risk significantly...
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In this study, we set up a DSGE model with upward looking consumption comparison and show that consumption externalities are an important driver of consumer credit dynamics. Our model economy is populated by two different household types. Investors, who hold the economy's capital stock, own the...
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policies and higher wages than the periphery without inducing a relocation of firms. The scope to have higher wage is …
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Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …
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The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature …-specific drinking behavior and wages. In our analysis, we disentangle the general wage effect of drinking into diverse effects for … different types of drinkers. Mincerian estimates reveal significant and positive relationships between wine drinkers and wages …
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' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external … ; reciprocity ; wages …
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wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried … salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …. However, if self-employed businesswomen went into salaried jobs, their wages would decline, suggesting that it is the self …
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study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes. Using quarterly information on wages and employment in … separately from the effects of political instability. The results suggest that low-skilled wages are adversely affected by an … increase in the supply of low- and high-skilled workers, while high- skilled wages are only weakly negatively related to an …
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principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …
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